MOLITOR, Ulrich (d. 1492).  De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus. Cologne: Cornelius de Zierikzee, ca. 1500.
MOLITOR, Ulrich (d. 1492). De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus. Cologne: Cornelius de Zierikzee, ca. 1500.

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MOLITOR, Ulrich (d. 1492). De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus. Cologne: Cornelius de Zierikzee, ca. 1500.

4o (203 x 138 mm). Collation: A-B6 C4 D6. 24 leaves, unfoliated. 34 lines. Gothic type. 2 six-line woodcut initials, capital strokes in red throughout, 8 large woodcut illustrations (two repeated, title woodcut and another heightened with red penstrokes). (A few scattered single wormholes, some minor marginal soiling.) Blindstamped calf antique.

Molitoris's De lamiis was first published 1489 (probably in Strassburg by Johann Prss), and was written in the form of a dialogue between the author and the dedicatee of the work, the Archduke Sigismund of Austria. As Cunradus Schatz, the author defends the belief in witchcraft and the power of the devil against the Archduke playing the role of skeptic. Its popularity is attested to by the number of printings during the last decade of the fifteenth century. This edition is one of at least five issued between 1496 and 1500 by the Cologne printer Cornelius de Zierikzee. Goff M-804; BMC I,310; Norman 1532.

[With:] MOLITOR, Ulrich. Des sorcires et des devineresses. Paris: Librairie Critique Emile Nourry, 1926. 8o (245 x 156 mm). Facsimile reproductions. Half red morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. LIMITED EDITION, number 422 of 500 copies of the facsimile edition of the Latin 1489 first edition of Molitor's De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, with a French translation of the text by P. Dujol. Norman 1533. [Laid-in:] An autograph letter signed from Dujol to the publisher Emile Nourry. 14 May 1923. 2 pages, small 8vo. (2)