Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PIPERNO, PIETRO. Della Superstitiosa Noce di Benevento Tratatto Historico. Half-page woodcut view of the walnut tree of Benevento and surroundings. [14], 109, [5] pages. Small 8vo, 18th-century vellum; margins trimmed not affecting text or illustration, some light browning or foxing, repair in blank lower margin of one preliminary leaf. Naples: Giacomo Giaffaro, 1640
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scarce first edition in italian of an account of a walnut tree in Benevento reputedly endowed with supernatural powers and the site of gatherings of witches; originally published in Piperno's 1634 De magicis affectibus, on diseases caused by magic.