Trafford Books
  1. < back to catalogue

Auction No 395, Tag: Demonology

2 Lots (displaying 1 - 2)

Francesco Maria Guazzo "Compendium Maleficarum, Collected in 3 Books from Many Sources by Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo of the Order of S.Ambrose

Lot: 23

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd Sep 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £72
MORE DETAILS

Francesco Maria Guazzo Compendium Maleficarum, Collected in 3 Books from Many Sources by Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo of the Order of S. Ambrose ad Nemus, Showing the Iniquitous and Execrable Operations of Witches Against the Human Race, and the Divine Remedies by Which They May be Frustrated. John Rodker, 1929, edited by Montague Summers; quarto, original red & black cloth, gilt, lower right corner of front board bumped o/w VG; uncut two sides, browning to endpapers o/w fine internally; 45 woodcuts in text; xxi, 206pp. No. 1221 of 1275 printed. Originally published in Milan, 1608.

[Henry Kramer and James Sprenger] "Malleus Maleficarum", Pushkin Press, 1948, edited & translated by Montague Summers;

Lot: 24

  • Auction Date: Wed 23rd Sep 2020 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £76
MORE DETAILS

[Henry Kramer and James Sprenger] Malleus Maleficarum, Pushkin Press, 1948, edited & translated by Montague Summers; original gilt cloth, VG, in a chipped d/jkt which has a few closed tears; spotting to edge of text block which strays on to the text border of a few pages o/w fine internally; xxi, 278pp. One of 2000 printed. [This is the second re-issue of a work first published in 1489, the first being the John Rodker edition of 1928 also in a very limited printing]