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Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo, showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated.
Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter’s manual written in Latin and published in Milan, Italy in 1608. It discusses witches’ pacts with the devil, and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons. The book includes many woodcuts and etchings of witches, demons and witchcraft. It also contains Guazzo’s classification of demons, based on a previous work by Michael Psellus. The book was not translated into English until the release of this edition in 1929, when this was accomplished under the direction of the witchcraft scholar Rev. Montague Summers.
This limited edition hardcover was published by John Rodker of London in 1929 and is number 439 of only 1275 copies.
The book is in Good condition – a former owner’s notes cover the inside back board and endpaper, name on front endpaper; otherwise the book is free of markings and shows minimal foxing. The book is protected in mylar, (no dust jacket as issued)
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