Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501
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Sale 2501 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WIER [or WEYER], JOHANN. De lamiis liber. Item de comementitiis ieiuniis. Woodcut portraits of the author on title verso, and Barbara Kremers on H4v. 6 [i. e., 5] pages, 7-134 columns, [3] leaves. 4to, 236x183 mm, contemporary calf with medallion head roll border around small gilt eagle stamp on front cover and fleuron on rear cover, lacking ties, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents clean, small hole in H1 affecting a couple of letters. Large armorial bookplate of Ambrosius Franz von Viermund und Neersen (1684-1744). Basel: Officina Oporiniana, 1577
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first abridged edition of the author's 1563 De praestigiis daemonum, an early attack on belief in witchcraft and the persecution of witches, whose behavior the author attributed to mental illness. Columns 107-134 contain an exposé of alleged miraculous fasting centering on the case of the 10-year-old Barbara Kremers, who supposedly lived for more than a year without food or drink. Garrison-Morton 4916 (original version); Durling 4733 (this edition).