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For as the humor of Melancholie in the selfe is blacke, heavie and terrene, so are the symptomes thereof, in any personses that are subject thereunto, leannes, palenes, desire of solitude: and if they come to the highest degree thereof, mere folie and manie: where as by the contrarie, a great nomber of them thatever have bene convict or confessors of Witchcraft, as may be presently seene by manie that have at this time confessed: they are by the contrarie, I say, some of them rich and worldly-wise, some of them fatte or corpulent in their bodies, and most part of them altogether given over to the pleasures of the flesh, continual haunting of companie, and all kind of merrines, both lawfull and unlawfull, which are thinges directly contrary to the symptomes of Melancholie, whereof I spake, and further experience daylie proves how loath they are to confesse without torture, which witnesseth their guiltines, where by the contrary, the Melancholicques never spares to bewray themselves, by their continuall discourses, feeding therby their humor in that which they thinke no crime. As to your third reason, it scarelie merites an answere. For if the devill their master were not bridled, as the scriptures teacheth us, suppose there were no men nor women to be his instrumentes, he could finde waies inough without anie helpe of others to wrack al mankinde...

...it was some good spirite that appeared to them then, ether to forewarne them of the death of their friend; or else to discover unto them, the will of the defunct, or what was the say of his slauchter, as is written in the booke of the histories Prodigious. And this way hee easelie deceived the Gentiles, because they knew not God: And to that same effect is it, that he now appeares in that maner tosome ignorant Christians. For he dare not so illude anie that knoweth that, neither can the spirite of the defunct returne to his friend, or yet an Angell use such formes...

...I must nowe goe backe againe in speering some questiones of everie one of these kindes in speciall. And first for these that followes certaine persones, yee know that there are two sortes of them: One sorte that troubles and tormentes the persones that they haunt with: An other sort that are serviceable unto them in all kinde of their necessaries, and omittes never to forwarne them of anie suddaine perrell that they are to be in. And so in this case, I would understande whither both these sortes be but wicked and damned spirites...

new pic and annoying neighbors

Apparently some things went on in my neighborhood while I was at work today. My two neighbors who are fighting day and night (married obviously) apparently went off the deep end and someone ended up being "killed". I'm not trying to be a jerk, but really. The woman's husband walked out of the room after the fight, and walked down the street toward my house, I imagine to cool off. She came back, and there was blood all over the house. He wasn't there either. Maybe she finally decided to hand his behind to him on a plate and he realized it wasn't meant to be.

SO, even though I was at work all day, I was still brought in for questioning.

The police asked me a load of questions, including if I was sexually active with this woman. If I was with that woman, I wouldn't be active in ANY physical or social aspects of life.

To top it off, they made me write a phrase on a piece of paper 5 times:

Tick Tock Tick Tock my darlings

What the hell? Tick Tock is right! I asked the detective if he had anything better to do. Honestly, the guy isn't there, and they can't declare him legally missing when it's been less than 24 hours.

Anyways, here's the photo I said I would post, and I apologize for posting in such a rotten mood.

I still haven't found anything out about the title, other than its appearance on the "book list" and one of the loose pages I have from an old manuscript.

New Used Stuff!

Alrighty, I have been waiting on this woman to do some testing on the newest box o' fun I bought, a gigantic lot of... and array of books, documents and photos. I have gotten one photo back so far as well as a telegram. It is definitely WWII era, as it is definitely from Hitler.

So you have been forewarned that I don't know what to make of it just yet, and you didn't even have to sign a disclaimer. I have to tell you right now, I can't make sense of what is in this stuff. Literally. I don't really think that they are historically accurate, but then again, I couldn't give you a straight answer on what I think they are.

My friend Jerry wants to borrow one of the things I got to have it appraised, and since seeing this odd stuff, I'm not exactly sure what it is I have anyways.




Ooops! I didn't even realize what time it is, I guess that means I'll post the photo when I get back home.

Feel free to leave comments here on what you think!

So many wonderful things!

I have online touched the tip of the iceberg with going through all of the books that I recently obtained. Quite a few things really got my attention. I found among the scattered book pages a few WWII documents, an old letter, and what appears to be a piece of a 16th century manuscript. It may be the find of the century, it may not. I am still trying to find out what it means, as strangely enough, the WWII document is somehow tied to it. Maybe they are fakes. Even stranger are the photos of nazi soldiers. I don't want to give too much away, just enough to get your attention, as I am not a hoaxer nor a gullible person.

I will keep you all updated on my findings as I learn more!

A few rareties worth looking at

This book was published in 1633, and it covers various aspects and subjects of astrological nature.

It is called "YU TU BEI KAO QUAN SHU" and it is one of the oldest and rarest books covering Celestial Phenomena of it's time. Not only is it very intriguing, but it is also very accurate.

The author was very methodical, as there are only 5 more of it's kind in the world... not reproductions or prints, but hand-written copies by the author, with his corrections.











"MULTAKA AL ABHUR"

1517 - An early law book of the Ottoman Empire.









One of my personal favorites! Printed in 1647, "SELENOGRAPHIA" is the first known lunar atlas.





Hope you all enjoy these wonderful scans, I will get on posting scans of the new books as well once I finish up closing the deals of the week.

Enjoy!

Dr. P

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

I would imagine most of you all are taking a little catnap by now. We can thank our dear friend tryptophan for that! I haven't taken a nap as of yet, for there is much to be done!

I've been so tied up with recent auctions and estates lately, but fear not, I have a wonderful collection to share with you!

Also, I have had a few people around here ask me about the music I put up on the page. Believe it or not, I actually enjoy it! It's soothing, and a bit groovy as well!

I'm a bit giddy today as I have purchased a GIGANTIC lot of very old books and I know it will be a long time before I am able to go through them all! Unfortunately, not all of them are in "survivable" condition. Quite a few are severley damaged, and I have ten times as many leaflets floating around now as I do books! Now it comes down to the Memory game, match 'em up!

I would really like to thank everyone who attended our last big sale, as well as the people supporting the cause to keep our history alive!

Welcome to PeoriaOnline!

PeoriaOnline is an online location for the Peoria Historical Society.

We are a very small group that have been collecting antique books and rare documents since 1984. If you have any old books or documents that seem to have no significance, perhaps you should not be so quick to get rid of them!
We don't appraise anything here, although our location has been a site for many private auctions in the past.

We will update this blog as much as possible, and hopefully our influence can become a wealth of knowledge.

Thank You for dropping by!