BOGUET, Henri. Discours des sorciers avec six advis en faict - Lot 118

BOGUET, Henri. Discours des sorciers avec six advis en faict de sorcelerie (...) Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1608. 1 vol. in-8. Contemporary full vellum with flaps, handwritten title on spine. [12]ff, 550pp, [1]f; [3]ff, 93pp, [3]pp, 32pp, [32] tables including last blank leaf. Printer's vignette on title page. Second and most complete edition. Dedicated to Archduke Albert of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain. The work first appeared in 1602. "A very rare work of demonology, which is in a way the summary of all the absurd witchcraft legends that were current at the time." "Very rare and most complete edition of this rare and sought-after book". Caillet. "What explains the rarity of Boguet's book is that the members of this singular magistrate's family long went broke buying up copies en masse. In his turn, Boguet was condemned to the fire... and by his own kind... There never was a more scrupulously exterminating judge". Stanislas de Guaita. Armorial bookplate of Emmanuel Jeanbernat Barthelemy de Ferrari Doria engraved by Stern pasted on the flyleaf. Some dampstaining, foxing, leaves uniformly foxed. Margins of title page creased. A good copy in contemporary binding. Caillet, I, 1322.