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WIER, Johann (1515-1588). De praestigiis daemonum, & incantationibus ac ueneficiis libri sex, postrema editione sext. Basle: Oporinus for Balthasar Han and Hieronymus Gemusaeus, 1583. Text in double column. Title with device, woodcut author portrait on verso, woodcut of a knife on F2r, occult diagram on M3r. (a2 with tears at top margin, some soiling and staining particularly to title and early quires, persistent waterstaining up to quire Q, quire Bb to end with marginal worm track growing to 26mm.) [ Bound with
WIER, Johann (1515-1588). De praestigiis daemonum, & incantationibus ac ueneficiis libri sex, postrema editione sext. Basle: Oporinus for Balthasar Han and Hieronymus Gemusaeus, 1583. Text in double column. Title with device, woodcut author portrait on verso, woodcut of a knife on F2r, occult diagram on M3r. (a2 with tears at top margin, some soiling and staining particularly to title and early quires, persistent waterstaining up to quire Q, quire Bb to end with marginal worm track growing to 26mm.) [ Bound with :] WIER, J. De lamiis liber: item De commentitiis ieiunis . Basle: Oporinus, 1577. Double column. Title with device, woodcut author portrait on verso, woodcut portrait of a young girl on H4v. (Worming at lower margin, some waterstaining and soiling.) 2 works in one volume, 4° (247 x 190mm). Contemporary pigskin over wood boards, covers with blind-stamped fillets and rolls, brass bosses and clasps, front cover inscribed ‘Mars 1585’ (rather worn and soiled, crudely rebacked). Provenance : textual annotations in first work, mainly in one untidy hand – G.W. Borowsky (signature on title) -- other inscriptions on title and pastedowns. The De praestigiis daemonum, first published in 1564, was a major treatise on demonology and the powers of necromancy by Johann Wier, physician to the duke of Cleves and pupil of Agrippa; this later edition is bound with the first edition of his shorter and not unsympathetic work on ‘lamiae’ or witches. Adams W-149 & W-141; Caillet III, 11433 (2nd work).