DEL RIO, Martin Antonio. Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, Louvain: Gerard Rivius, 1599-1600, 3 volumes, 4°, [?] FIRST EDITION, woodcut device to title, printer's device to verso of last leaves, one folding letterpress table in volume II (upper margins cropped affecting a few running titles in vol. I, marginal staining to a few leaves in vols. I-II, small rust stains to C4 in vol. II and small rust hole to Q4 in vol. III causing slight loss), contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spines (a few corners bumped), sprinkled edges. [Adams D242] (3)

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DEL RIO, Martin Antonio. Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, Louvain: Gerard Rivius, 1599-1600, 3 volumes, 4°, [?] FIRST EDITION, woodcut device to title, printer's device to verso of last leaves, one folding letterpress table in volume II (upper margins cropped affecting a few running titles in vol. I, marginal staining to a few leaves in vols. I-II, small rust stains to C⁴ in vol. II and small rust hole to Q4 in vol. III causing slight loss), contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spines (a few corners bumped), sprinkled edges. [Adams D242] (3)

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Brunet [II, 579] notes that this edition is generally regarded as the first, but that Graesse records an earlier edition of 1593, possibly a ghost. Del Rio was a member of the Inquisition convened by the Duc d'Albe, and known among the terrified populace of Flanders as the "Conseil de Sang."

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