SPRENGER, J. & H. INSTITORIS. Malleus maleficarum, in tres divisus partes, in quibus concurrentia ad maleficia, maleficiorum effectus, (…). Venice, J.A. Bertanus, 1574. (64), 505, (8) pp. W. printer's mark on ti. Cont. limp vellum. (Ticket on spine, vellum a bit soiled, remnants of ties, upper outer corner a bit dampstained in places).
The famous Venetian reedition of the Hammer of Witches, the best-known source for 16th-c. views on sorcery and witches, describing in three sections the evidences of witchcraft as established by the Bible, its nature and horrors and the manner of dealing with it, and the practical rules for procedure whether the trial can be conducted in an ecclesiatical or a secular court. The work was first published in 1487. - Adams, S-1614; Caillet III, 7055.€ 1400
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