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INSTITORIS [or KRAMER], HENRICUS; SPRENGER, JACOBUS; et al. Malleus maleficarum [and other texts]. Volumes 1 and 2 (of 3) in one. [10] (of [12]), 544, [36]; [16], 9-316 pages, with index and table of contents to first volume bound after page 544; lacks blank 3*8. 8vo, old calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed, joints starting, cover edges and corners worn; contents toned, Volume 1 title lightly soiled. Lyon: Claude Landry, 1620
Notorious witch-hunter's manual originally published circa 1487, "the source, inspiration, and quarry for all subsequent treatises on witchcraft" (Robbins), here expanded to include 15th-17th century texts on the subject by Nider, Molitor, Spina, and others. Robbins (1959), pages 337-40; Zilboorg, pages 144-74.
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