Malleus Maleficarum

by Henricus Institoris, Jacobus Sprenger

$87,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

The third Drach edition. 190 leaves. Collation: a6 b–d8 e–z6 A–E6 F–G8. 1 vols. 4to. Nineteenth-century green quarter leather and marbled boards. Title leaf mounted, with some small marginal repairs. Early ownership signature of Valentino Mu—, Stolberg, and his manuscript annotations and glosses, especially in first third of text. Last leaf with annotations in an eighteenth-century hand, the story of Melusina, with a sketch of her taking flight.

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