Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DEL RÍO, MARTÍN ANTONIO, S.J. Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex. [16], 1181, [35] pages, including half-title and etched title with historiated border showing scenes from Exodus 7-11. 4to, old calf, spine badly worn, rear cover detached; contents heavily browned and foxed, scattered marginal stains, some worming in blank lower margins. Cologne: Peter Henning, 1657

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First published in 1599, "in many ways the most complete of all the works on witchcraft and as renowned as the Malleus Maleficarum"--Robbins (1959), page 121. Palau 268283.