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The Historic Vampire Debate

Authentic translations of historic writings on Vampirism during the Holy Roman Empire with an archive of imperial documents and maps
Authentic translations of historic writings on Vampirism during the Holy Roman Empire with an archive of imperial documents and maps
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The Historic Vampire Debate

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  1. Pledge $85 or more About $85

    Occult Philosophy

    Signed leather bound edition Exclusive to campaign.

    Magister Michael Ranft's Tractate on the Chewing and Smacking of the Dead in Graves (1734).

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    • Laid-style cream paper
    • Gold foil Deboss on leather
    • Gold foil gilded paper edges
    • Red Moire end-sheets
    • Black and Red Ink
    • Ribbon Book Marker

    Includes:
    • Signed Leather Bound Special Edition
    • Facsimile of a Historic Map
    • Facsimile of a Historic Document
    • Genealogical Table
    • Nekyia Foldout
    • Ex Libris Bookplate
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    Alchemy

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    This Volume contains several texts that argue upon alchemist philosophy as it relates to the phenomena associated with the official reports on vampires. Featuring an anonymous work entitled An Official and Cumbersome Relation upon those Vampires or People-Suckers (1732) and the works that refuted it by Gottlob Henreich Vogt. it is further appended with other rare and hard to find writings in relation to the Hermetic perspective that held an important role in this historic debate.

    • Leather Bound
    • Thread sewn text block
    • Laid-style cream paper
    • Gold foil Deboss on leather
    • Gold foil gilded paper edges
    • Red Moire end-sheets
    • Ribbon book marker

    Includes:
    • Signed Leather Bound Special Edition
    • Facsimile of a Historic Map
    • Facsimile of a Historic Document
    • The Four Temperaments Set
    • Ex Libris Bookplate
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    Medicine

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    This volume focuses on the medicinal perspective. Featurimg W.S.G.E.'s A Curious and very Miraculous Report on the Recent News in Serbia Presenting Vampires or Blood-Suckers, Derived from authentic news, and accompanied with historical and philosophical reflections. (1732) The volume is expanded and Appended with letters, correspondence and other medical writings from this historical debate.

    • Leather Bound
    • Thread sewn text block
    • Laid-style cream paper
    • Gold foil Deboss on leather
    • Gold foil gilded paper edges
    • Red Moire end-sheets
    • Ribbon book marker

    Includes:
    • Signed Leather Bound Special Edition
    • Facsimile of a Historic Map
    • Facsimile of a Historic Document
    • Pamphlet (Royal Prussian Society of Sciences)
    • Ex Libris Bookplate
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    Theology

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    Johann Christoph Harenberg's Sensible and Christian Thoughts upon those Vampires or Bloodsucking Dead, so among the Turks and on the boarders of Serbian Lands to suck the blood of the living men and cattle, accompanied with all sorts of theological, philosophical, and historical notes brought from the realm of spirits. (1733)

    • Leather Bound
    • Thread sewn text block
    • Laid-style cream paper
    • Gold foil Deboss on leather
    • Gold foil gilded paper edges
    • Red Moire end-sheets
    • Ribbon book marker

    Includes:
    • Signed Leather Bound Special Edition
    • Facsimile of a Historic Map
    • Facsimile of a Historic Document
    • Plants of the Infamous Powder Set
    • Ex Libris Bookplate
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    Four Volume Set

    All four volumes and their associated rewards!

    Occult Philosophy
    Alchemy
    Medicine
    Theology

    Includes:
    • 4× Signed Leather Bound Special Edition
    • 4× Facsimile of a Historic Map
    • 4× Facsimile of a Historic Document
    • 4× Ex Libris Bookplate
    • Genealogical Table
    • Nekyia Foldout
    • The Four Temperaments Set
    • Pamphlet (Royal Prussian Society of Sciences)
    • Plants of the Infamous Powder Set
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