Live auction - Lot 818
[Esoterics]
Trois livres des charmes, sorcelages, ou enchantemens [...] [trsl. from the Latin Julian Baudon].
Paris, N. Chesneau, 1583
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: [8]-553-[67 (of 71)] pp. (lacking final index ff. Qq7-8; toned, title underlaid, 1st quires loosening, marginal soiling or staining).
Old limp vellum made from a fragment of a rubricated liturgical music manuscript, spine titled in ink (loosening at front). Good, textually complete, copy.
French trsl. of a treatise against witchcraft by the Spanish Benedictine theologian Vairo, bishop of Pozzuoli (1523-1603). Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Coumont V1.3. - Palau 346794. - Adams V-17. - Caillet 10965. - Thorndike VI:528. - Wellcome I:6418. Prov. "Frederic Verachter", 1797-1870, Antwerp archivist and collector (name on title). - [Georges Petit].