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TORREBLANCA VILLALPANDO, FRANCISCO. Epitomes delictorum in quibus aperta, vel oculta invocatio daemonis intervenit libri IIII. [10], 166; 92; 36 leaves, including engraved title and portrait of the author. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 299x208 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties; contents browned, worming through much of volume causing varying text loss, old scored inscription in lower margin of title. Seville: Ildefonso Rodríguez Gamarra & Francisco de Lira, 1618
first edition of a treatise on the varieties of divination and black magic, and their punishment considered from the standpoint of legal procedure and pastoral care. The third part is the author's Defensa en Favor de los Libros Católicos de la Magia. Caillet 10763; Palau 335826 (mistakenly calling for 14 preliminary leaves); Thorndike VII, 326-30, and VIII, 482-84.
