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Lugduni, Claude Bourgeat, 1669 .
4to. 1 f + 14 pp (index) + 184pp + 322 pp + 18pp (index)
Contemporary calf binding, rubbed but very solid. Interior complete and in good condition. Light browning on a few pages.
Beautiful printing and typography in a rare large format, most earlier versions of these demonological texts usually appearing in smaller size.
This is the Tome 2 (Part1 + Part2), complete in itself, of what was probably the best and largest compilation on demonology ever published, right around the end of the witch hunts in Europe. Bourgeat published 3 other independent tomes in this set, which are often found separately, they are: the Malleus Malleficarum (Vol 1) , Daemonastix (Vol 3), Artis Exorcisticae (Vol 4)
The exact list of treatises contained in the present book is as follow :
Part 1 (184 pages) :
- Bernardi Basin - De artibus Magicis ac Magorum Maleficiis
- Ulrich Molitor - de Lamiis
- Ioannis de Gerson - de probatione Spirituum
- Thomae Murner - de Phythonico contractu
- Bartholomae de Spina - Quaestio de Strigibus seu Maleficis
Part2 (322 pages) :
- Laurentii Anania- De Natura Daemonum
- Bernardi Comensis - Tractatus de Strigibus
- Ambrosis de Vignate - Quaestio de Lamiis seu Strigibus
- Ioan. Gersonii - Tractatus de eroribus circa artem Magicam
- Ivan. Franc. Leonis - de Sortilegiis
- Iacobi Simancae - de Lamiis
- Alphonsi a Castro Zamorensis - De impia Sortilegarum, Maleficarum et Lamiarum haeresi.
- Pauli Grillandi - Tractatus de Sortilegiis.
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