Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 329

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DEL RIO, MARTIN ANTONIO, S.J. Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex . . . editio postrema. [52], 468, [55] pages, including engraved additional title with vignettes of Moses and the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Folio, 357x230 mm, 17th-century calf gilt, binding cocked, front joint restored, hinges reinforced; clean tear in title gutter repaired on verso, conspicuous wormtrail through blank upper outer corners toward end, contents otherwise generally clean. Lyon: Jean Pillehotte, 1612

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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 268274 note.