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Magiologia: Christliche Warnung für dem Aberglauben und Zauberey: Darinnen gehandlet wird Von dem Weissagen, Tagwellen und Zeichendeuten, von dem Bund der Zauberer mit dem Teufel: von den geheimen Geisteren, Waarsagen, Loosen und Spielen: von den Duelle
Basel, Getrukt bey Johann Heinrich Meyer, 1674. In-8. Latin & German text. 1 volume complete itself. 1107 p. Colation complete. First edition of kind of warning against sorcery by the XVII c. Swiss Protestant pastor Bartholomäus Anhorn. Contains chapters on dreams, palmistry, duelling, witches, alchemy, and charming. Very rare book including an introductory eulogy by Johannes Tonjola. Internal condition: original gold ornamented brown calf binding. Rubbed, bumped, with minor defects on the spine with missing the closure ribbons. Title page and engraved title printed in black. Slightly browned due to paper, dampstained in places and few corners bent with XIX c. unknown bookplate on the endpaper. Red paper edges. Rare first edition. Bibliography: VD17 3:600284P. Graesse, BMP, 51. Goedeke III, 241, 22. Por. Faber du Faur 1265 and Jantz 378. Hayn-Gotendorf III, 172. USTC 6144407. Faber du Faur 1265: "Anhorn believed in devils and witchery, but advocated caution as regards such phenomena as the bleeding of corpses in the presence of their murderers, and thought that no one should be imprisoned and questioned under torture on such kind of evidence alone". Jantz 378: "A partially critical survey of occult phenomena and popular superstitions". Provenance: Unknown, probably XIX c. coat of arms bookplate on the first endpaper.
Epitome delictorum, sive de Magia, in qua aperta vel occulta invocatio daemonis intervenit. Editio Novissima Innumeris Mendis Expurgata.
Lugduni (Lyon), sumpt. J. A. Huguetan, 1678. Book in Latin. In-4. Collation: [8], 576, [104]. Original full vellum, ink title on the spine. Title in red & black. Armorial bookplate of the Prince of Lichtenstein on the front pastedown. First and last blank endpapers intact. Some wear and soiling to vellum. Foxing. Overall Very good. Complete. 3rd edition of Summary of Crimes, or On Magic: In which open or hidden invocation of the demon intervenes, is a comprehensive legal guide on defining, identifying, and prosecuting acts of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery, heavily influenced by the Spanish Inquisition and demonological theory. The work categorizes different types of magic—distinguishing between "open" (explicit pacts) and "hidden" (implicit/superstitious) invocation of demons. It was a standard reference for canon law and criminal issues related to magic in the 17th century, including its use in Spanish and Portuguese colonial contexts. Book is devided into 4 parts + "Defensa". Pages 514-76 contain the author's "Defensa de los Libros Católicos de la Magia". Bibliography: Caillet 10764; Cornell Witchcraft Collection 53; Graesse (Magica) 53; Palau 334.827; Thorndike VII, 326-30; USTC No. 6080367; Coumont T.33.3; Goldsmith T-444; Crowe 551; OCLC: 11407716; Robbins 1026. "The work is divided into four books devoted to divining magic, operative magic, and its punishment in the forum exterior and juridical, and in the interior tribunal of the soul and confessional. Magic is defined after Proclus and Psellus as an exacter knowledge of secret things in which, by observing the course and influence of the stars and the sympathies and antipathies of particular things, they are applied to one another at the proper time and place and in the proper manner, so that marvels are worked. Torreblanca turns to diabolical magic and the extent of the powers of the devil to make it possible. Torreblanca has jumbled together natural and diabolical magic almost inextricably, but his remaining chapters are on witchcraft, with the two last on natural and divine remedies against it." (Thorndike VII, A History of Magic and Experimental Science). Provenance: Old Ex libris - (library ?) Lichtensteinianis (Armorial bookplate of the Prince of Lichtenstein?).
Malleus haereticorum. De variis falsorum dogmatum notis, atque censuris, libri duo. In quibus universa penè haereses et cognoscendi, et fugiendi ratio continetur. Sive methodus contra sectas, ad argvendos et convicendos haereticos congesta: editio secunda, cui nunc accessit demonstratio, penes quos hodie vera, aut falsa sit ecclesia.
Ingolstadt, apud Davidem Sartorium, 1581. pp. [80] 542 p. Book in Latin. In-8. Beautifull ornamented white blind stamped calf. Additionally black engreved to front cover. Two original clasps. Fist and last blank leaf missing. Title page in black. 80 unnumbered and 542 numbered pages. Blue paper edges. Clean endpapers with small pencil annotation on the first back cover. Nice ornameting, wide margins and initial letters. Very clean and bright interior. Franziskaner Kloster Dettelbach stamp and hand-written anotations on the title page. Complete. Very good condition. 2nd rare edition (First, 1580) of interesting and influential work on heresy. Very uncommon issue on the market. Rare in any edition. "Hammer of Heretics" is a Catholic counter-reformation text by Georg Eder, published in Ingolstadt, that defends Catholicism against Protestant doctrines, particularly Lutheranism and Anabaptism. It is distinct from the 1487 Malleus Maleficarum (witch-hunting manual), focusing instead on combating heresy through theological argumentation. Eder was a lawyer and Catholic theologian (1523 - 1587), Imperial Court Councillor and advisor to Emperors Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolf II. Best known for his theological polemical writings. "His oratorical and literary talent, the decidedly Catholic orientation from his Bavarian homeland, which deepened in Cologne and, in Vienna, where he immediately sought contact with the Jesuits, manifested itself in tireless activity, making Eder a champion of Catholicism struggling for its existence in Austria" (NDB IV, 311 f.). "Eder's writings from this period all deal with the question of church confession with regard to the differing and opposing positions of the Protestants" (ADB V, 318). Bibliography: USTC No. 674751, VD16 E 541, Stalla 1413, Adams E 64. Provenance: Franziskaner Kloster Dettelbach.
Malleus maleficarum, maleficas et earum haeresim framea conterens : ex variis actoribus compilatus, & in tres tomos iuste distributus ..
France, Lyon, Claude Landry, 1620. In-8. Text in Latin. 2 volumes of 3 complete itself. Last part dated 1621 under title: Daemonomastix sive Vniversi operis adversus daemones et maleficos ad vsum praesertim exorcistarum concinnati, is not included. Colation: V 1: title page in black and red, indexes and 544 p.: Henricus Institoris & Jakob Sprenger - Malleus maleficarum : maleficas et earum haeresin framea conterens... 2. Fr. Ioannis Nideri - Formicarum de maleficis, & earum praestigiis ac deceptionibus... V2.1: title page in black and red, indexes and 317 p.: 3. Bernhardi Basin - Opusculum de artibus magicis ac magorum maleficiis. 4. Vlrici Molitoris - Dialogus de lamiis, & Pythonicis mulieribus. 5. Ioannis de Gerson - Libellus de triale spirituum. 6. Thomas Murner - Libellus de Pythonico contractu.7. Bartholomaei de Spina - Quaestio de strigibus seu maleficis. 8. Io. Franciscum Ponzinbium - De lamiis, apologia prima [-quarta]. V2.2: title page in black and red, indexes and 506 p.: 9. Joan. Laurentii Ananiae - De Natura daemonum. 10. R.P.F. Bernardi Comensis - Tractatus de strigibus, cum notis Franc. Pennae. 11. Ambrosii de Vignate - Elegans ac utilis quaestio de lamiis seu strigibus. 12. Joan. Gersonii - Tractatus de erroribus circa artem magicam et articulis reprobatis. 13. Joan. French Leonis - Libellus de sortilegiis. 14. Jacobi Simancae - Titulus unicus de lamiis. 15. Alphonsi a Castro, Zamorensis - de Impia sortilegarum. 16. Pauli Grillandi - Tractatus de sortilegiis eorumque poenis. A collected edition of the most famous book about witches ever written including other works dedicated to occult topic. 16 extremely rare treatises on demonology and witchcraft in a single binding in three parts! Over 1,300 pages, 3 separate title pages, tables of contents, and indexes. Complete 1620 edition itself. Internal condition: very good. Binding: good. Cracked parchment on the spine requires minor restoration but overal in good and solid condition. Bibliography: The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Robbins, 1964; Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Yve-Plessis or Bibliotheca esoterica; USTC 6902887. Provenance: XVII c. - Chistophori Solarij U.I.D. & Bibliothecae Slacoverdensis Scholarum Piarum.
Tractatus de magis, veneficis et lamiis, recte cognoscendis et puniendis
Nuremberg: Johann Daniel Tauber, 1676. Book in Latin and German. In-8. [12], 162; 102; 256, [73] pages, including errata leaf at end. Contemporary vellum, ink title on the spine, occasional light foxing. Title in red & black. Later edition of this work on magic and witchcraft by J.G. Godelmann (1559-1611), German diplomat and professor of law at Rostock University. Book contains 3 parts. The 1st and 2nd part contains information on magic, sorcerers, and witches, the 3rd part dedicates to legal procedures in witchcraft cases. The book was placed on the Index of prohibited books in 1601. Bibliography: Ref. VD-17 1:0629512, Caillet 4226, Coumont G 43.5., Thorndike VI, 535-37. USTC 2589027. Not in BL London. Coumont G 43.5. - "Godelmann's greatest achievement lies in his, for this time, exceptionally decisive stance against the belief in witches". Provenance: From the library of André Lambert, with ex-libris. Ownership sticker: Oskar Gershel, Buchhandlung Stuttgart, Kronprinzstrasse 32. bound with Law book by MEVIUS (David) titled: Considerationes juridicae super Sex diversis punctis, indeque resultantibus Quaestionibus, in Causis Proprietariorum Pensionariorum subinde occurrentibus. Hall. Saxon.[Halle-sur-Saale], Sumptibus Simon. Joh. Hubneri, 1675.
Traicte des anges et demons
A Paris: chez Francois Huby, 1607. Book in French. In-12. Engreved title page in black, 7 sheets unnumbered and 242 numbered sheets. Later XIX c. full brown blind stamped calf. Gold lettering and ornamenting spine, red lables. Red paper edges. Clean ecrue endpapers. Nice ornameting and lettering, initial letters, some light browning and few water stains inside. Otherwise very clean without any anotations, marks or stamps. Complete. 2nd rare edition (First, 1605) of interesting and influential work on demonology and angelology. Very uncommon issue on the market. Rare in any edition. Tratise deals with the angels' names, their immortality, movement and the power by Spanish Jesuit theologian Juan de Maldonado (1533-1583). Juan Maldonado was a scholar and demonologist known for his profound knowledge of ancient languages. "Traicté des anges et demons" is a translation of some lectures of Maldonado, collected and translated by Canon Fr. Arnault de La Borie (1525?-1607) in 1605 and published in the same year in French. Bibliography: Coumont M:11.8., Wellcome I:3996., Not in Caillet (other ed. 7042), USTC No. 6024485. Provenance: No markings (?).
Enchiridion Leonis Papae Serenissimo imperatori Carolo Magno
Rome (but Paris), Imprimé chez Jules Bonaventure, quai des Grands-Augustins 55, 1740 but (probably 1850). In-12. Hardcover. In-12. Colation complete: 108 pp. Edition corrigee. Quarter leather binding, brown leather backstrip over marbled paper boards. Gilt titling on leather spine label, raised bands, gilt rules and decorations to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Title page coloured, 7 full page coloured plates. Bright and clean inside. Rare Very rare grimoire, one of the most important books on ceremonial magic. This edition is of great value, although it appeared after 1740. Less common than Blocquel edition. Eliphas Levi in his History of Magic says the date of this edition with certainty is difficult, Yves-Plessis considers it around 1850. Most modern editions are based on more or less counterfeit versions of this grimoire. Very curious manual of magic includes, among other subjects, mysterious prayers to ward off and cure all kinds of illnesses, against charms, bewitchments, evil impediments to marriage, possessions, and everything that can happen through the evil spells of sorcerers. Bibliography: Caillet, 3620, Yves- Plessis, 1064, Dorbon, 1493.
