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WEYER, Johann (1515-1588). De praestigiis daemonum. Von Teuffelsgespenst Zauberern und Gifftbereytern Schwartzknstlern Hexen und Unholden. Translated by Johann Fglin. Frankfurt am Main: Nikolaus Basse, 1586.
2o (313 x 205 mm). Gothic type, title in red and black, with hand-colored title vignette, woodcut illustrations in text. (Minor worming to last few pages, light browning.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum (upper joint cracked).
Fifth (?) edition in German, rivised and enlarged. With three new appendices definding Weyer's views against the attacks of Jean Bodin. Norman 2218.
[Bound with:]
BODIN, Jean (1530-1596). De magorum daemonomania. Vom aussgelasnen Wtigen Teuffelsheer Allerhand Zauberern Hexen unnd Hexenmeistern... Gegen des Herrn Doctor J. Wier Buch von der Geister verfhrungen. Translated from French to German by Johann Filchart. Strassburg: Bernhart Jobin, 1591.
2o (313 x 205 mm). Gothic type, title in red and black. (Light browning.)
Third edition in German. Bodin, a defender of the existence of witchcraft, attacked Weyer on scholarly and legal grounds. Bodin first published his work in French in 1580. BM/STC German p. 133; Norman 254.
2o (313 x 205 mm). Gothic type, title in red and black, with hand-colored title vignette, woodcut illustrations in text. (Minor worming to last few pages, light browning.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum (upper joint cracked).
Fifth (?) edition in German, rivised and enlarged. With three new appendices definding Weyer's views against the attacks of Jean Bodin. Norman 2218.
[Bound with:]
BODIN, Jean (1530-1596). De magorum daemonomania. Vom aussgelasnen Wtigen Teuffelsheer Allerhand Zauberern Hexen unnd Hexenmeistern... Gegen des Herrn Doctor J. Wier Buch von der Geister verfhrungen. Translated from French to German by Johann Filchart. Strassburg: Bernhart Jobin, 1591.
2o (313 x 205 mm). Gothic type, title in red and black. (Light browning.)
Third edition in German. Bodin, a defender of the existence of witchcraft, attacked Weyer on scholarly and legal grounds. Bodin first published his work in French in 1580. BM/STC German p. 133; Norman 254.