Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
TORREBLANCA VILLALPANDO, FRANCISCO. Epitome delictorum sive de magia . . . in qua aperta vel occulta invocatio dæmonis intervenit. Editio novissima. [8], 576, [107] pages. 4to, 226x173 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, turn-ins sprung; title lightly soiled, with old stamp of the Kön. Sächs. Schullehrer-Seminar, light dampstaining in lower outer corners in middle of volume. Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan, 1678

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Treatise originally published in 1618 on the varieties of divination and black magic, and their punishment considered from the standpoint of legal procedure and pastoral care. Pages 514-76 contain the author's Defensa de los Libros Católicos de la Magia. Caillet 10764; Palau 335827; Thorndike VII, 326-30, and VIII, 482-84.