1928, ISBN: 8de8011292a79d80209ef9dd462ac9a9

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Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: John Rodker], First edition in English of the best known treatise on witchcraft. The Malleus Maleficarum (Witch's Hammer), written by clergymen Heinric… mais…

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: John Rodker], First edition in English of the best known treatise on witchcraft. The Malleus Maleficarum (Witch's Hammer), written by clergymen Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger and first published in Germany in 1487, was intended to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches. It includes detailed instructions for conducting witch trials, including torture and execution, and numerous tales of diabolic compacts, shape-shifters, incubi and succubi, transvection and mortals in league with Satan. London: John Rodker, 1928. Translated from the original 1489 Latin version with an introduction, bibliography and notes by the Rev. Montague Summers. Limited to 1275 numbered copies of which this is 1032. Quarto, original red paper spine and cloth boards, uncut pages. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Some shelfwear, rubbing and scratching mainly to the red paper label, with a few tiny pinholes. Owner's blindstamp to endpapers with a signature and date to front pastedown, else clean. Scarce., Books<