May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348
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Sale 2348 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 1,216
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WEYER [or WIER], JOHANN. Opera omnia. [44], 418 pages, 419-22 leaves, 423-1002, [59] pages, including engraved portrait of the author. 4to, 198x158 mm, contemporary vellum boards, soiled, with some discoloration on spine; opening leaves browned, occasional dampstaining in lower outer corners and dark stains along top edges, rear free endpaper lacking. Amsterdam: Petrus vanden Berge, 1660
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first collected edition, including Weyer's 1563 De praestigiis daemonum, "the first major European work to take an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness, and one of the most celebrated exposés of the witchcraft delusion" (Norman). "Other important works on demons and witches are present, as are his medical writings"--Heirs of Hippocrates 302. Norman 2224 (see also 2209).