[SPRENGER, Jakob (1436-1495) and KRMER, Heinrich (ca.1430-1505)]. Malleus maleficarum. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 March 1494].

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[SPRENGER, Jakob (1436-1495) and KRMER, Heinrich (ca.1430-1505)]. Malleus maleficarum. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 March 1494].

4o (224 x 172mm). Collation: @8 a-q8 r10 (@1r title, @1v blank, @2r Apologia autoris, @2v Tenor bulle apostolice adversus heresim maleficarum..., @5r Tabula, @8 blank, a1r Malleus maleficarum, r9r colophon). 145 leaves (of 146, without final blank r10). 53 lines and headlines, double column. Types: 130 (title, headlines); 15:91 (headings); 21:74 (body of text). Spaces for 3- and 4-line capitals, some with guide letters. Unrubricated. (First six and last two leaves with small, mostly marginal wormtracks, a few letters in headline on r9r affected, scattered light spotting and a few leaves yellowed, small ink stain to fore-edge of about 25 leaves, affecting fore-margins of e7-8.) Quarter vellum (17th century?) over contemporary wooden boards, title faintly lettered in ink on upper cover, hand-lettered paper spine label (soiled, lacking clasp, small wormholes to vellum). Provenance: Joannes Reinhard Kne[?]horn (inscription on title-page); J.B. Holzinger (19th-century bookplate).

First Koberger edition. Goff I-166; BMC II 438 (IA. 7468); Hain *9245; Klebs 926.4; Polain(B) 2124; Oates 1033; Wellcome 6049; Norman 1993.