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MASSÉ, Pierre. De imposture et tromperie des diables, devins, enchanteuers, sorciers, noveurs, d'esguillettes, chevilleurs, necromanciens, chiromanciens, & autres qui par telle invocation diabolique, ars magiques & superstitions abusent le peuple. Paris: Jean Poupy, 1579.
8° (179 x 109mm). Title with printer's device, woodcut initials, headpieces. (Faint waterstaining in lower corner at the end.) Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges (lightly soiled, lacking ties). Provenance: ‘Collegiu[m] Soc[ietatis] Jesu Cochran (inscription on title) – Michael ?Desne (inscription on rear endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of this book on witchcraft, which includes Rene Benoist’s Traicte enseignant en bref les causes des malefices. Adams M-863; Brunet III, 1518; Graesse IV, 438; Wellcome I, 4117.
8° (179 x 109mm). Title with printer's device, woodcut initials, headpieces. (Faint waterstaining in lower corner at the end.) Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges (lightly soiled, lacking ties). Provenance: ‘Collegiu[m] Soc[ietatis] Jesu Cochran (inscription on title) – Michael ?Desne (inscription on rear endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of this book on witchcraft, which includes Rene Benoist’s Traicte enseignant en bref les causes des malefices. Adams M-863; Brunet III, 1518; Graesse IV, 438; Wellcome I, 4117.
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