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La Demonomanie Des Sorciers
by Jean Bodin [I. Bodin], (Johann Weyer [De praestigiis daemonum])
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
A Roven, De LImprimerie De Raphael du petit Val, Libraire & Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy., 1604. M. DCIIII. Rare Penultimate Edition. All Original, Full Calf Contemporary Binding. Elaborate Gilt Stamping to Spine, with Additional Decorative Gilt Stamping to All Board Edges. Full Leather binding shows some wear, joints Fine without splitting. Sewn binding tight with a few signatures askew. Red speckled page edges, Marbled pastedowns. Internally bright, with Silk Tie page-marker. A few instances of quilled marginalia, small worm to start (see image). Collated Complete, Signatures A-Z12 Aa-CC12 Dd6. with p.359 mis-numbered 450, 351 for 451. Although stated "Last" on Title Page, this is in fact the Twelfth, Penultimate Edition, that follows the Prevosteau of 1598, and Most Desirable, for it includes Contents not found in the quarto or octavo editions. "Considered the best work we have on Witchcraft" [Dorbon, Bibliotheca Esoterica 390; Coumont B87.19]. Denrniere. Hard Cover/Full-Leather/Sewn. Very Good. Illus. by Woodcut Design, Headpieces, Tailpiece Grotesque, Initial Drop Caps, etc. Thick 12mo - over 5½" tall.
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- Title
- La Demonomanie Des Sorciers
- Author
- Jean Bodin [I. Bodin], (Johann Weyer [De praestigiis daemonum])
- Illustrator
- Woodcut Design, Headpieces, Tailpiece Grotesque, Initial Drop Caps, etc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Denrniere
- Publisher
- A Roven, De LImprimerie De Raphael du petit Val, Libraire & Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy.
- Date Published
- 1604
- Size
- Thick 12mo - over 5½" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- History, France, Heresy, Occult, Demonology, Witchcraft, Craze, Trials, Witch, Hunter, Christianity, Folklore, Religious Psychology, Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Magic, Magick, Sex, Spells, Charms, Sabbat, Orgies, Malleus, Compendium, Maleficarum
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Fine
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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