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Stregoneria - Rémy, Nicolas
Daemonolatreiae libri tres. Ex iudiciis capitalibus nongentorum plus minus hominum, here sortilegij crimen intra annos quindecim in Lotharingia capite luerunt, 1596
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Cologne, Henricum Falckenburg, 1596 [Cologne, Andreae Lamberti, 1596]. In 8th. Typographical mark on the title page, initials and woodcut friezes, the first two files are missing † -2 † ⁸, containing the dedications to the Cardinal of Lorraine and to the reader and the Summa singulorum capitum, slight water mill on the first cards, slightly burnished rare stains, tear at the upper margin of Y4 without loss of text, rare annotations in pencil. Contemporary parchment binding with manuscript title and author on the spine, slight defects. Handwritten notes on the title page and on the guard card. § Together in the lot Pistacchi Castelli, Angelo, Tractatus de superstitione, reorumque iudicio, duas partes complectens [. ..], Naples, Castaldo, 1678. In 2 °. Allegorical front door engraved in copper with coat of arms and portrait of the dedicatee, Cardinal Alderano Cybo, frontispiece in red and black ink with woodcut emblem of the Theatines, initials and woodcut friezes, tear with a gap in the lower edge of the ante-door that does not affect the mirror of 'engraving, woodworm work on the upper white margin in the first installments up to A2, tear without loss of text at O1, water gore at the upper outer margin, halos and stains, some burnished papers, sporadic blooms, coeval parchment binding with handwritten title on the spine, defects, gaps on the spine. Ex libris on the title page.
Specialist Notes
Rare specimen. Nicolas Remy (c.1530 - 1612) was a magistrate who, during his long career in Lorraine, sentenced to death, as an inquisitor judge, more than a thousand people on charges of witchcraft. Together with Malleus Maleficarum (1486), Demonolatreiae is considered one of the most important works on witchcraft, the subject of numerous re-editions and translated into German.