1603 Disquisitionum magicarum by Martin DEL RIO antique MAGIC TREATISE FOLIO

Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex. Nunc secundis curis auctior. 

3 parts in one volume

 Mainz, Johann Albin ; 1603

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One of the two best known treatises on magic (along with Malleus Maleficarum), Jesuit scholar Martin Del Rio’s Disquisitionum Magicarum was first published at Louvain in 1599-1600, and quickly went through a number of editions. The text, written from a counter-reformation viewpoint, covers superstition, idolatry and devil worship, amulets, incantations, spells, alchemy, exorcism, prophecy, divination, and provides a list of satanic authors (including Bacon, Paracelsus, and George Ripley).
It became the standard guide for priests and ecclesiastical judges, both Catholic and Protestant, throughout the 17th century, particularly during the height of the witch-hunts in France and the German states in the first decades of the seventeenth century.
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With engraved title page and 1 folded table.

11 leaves, 276 pp., 10 leaves, 268 pp., 10 leaves (oil), 2 leaves, 250 pp., 6 leaves.

Original limp vellum (signs of wear).

-Palau 268, 269. De Backer-S. II, 1898, 7. Graesse, BMP 47. Krivatsy 3100. - 


Del Rio's major work ( first in folio), a comprehensive compendium of all magic. 

Somewhat browned, handwritten ownership inscription.

Small folio. Size 8 1/4 by 12 1/2"

Text in Latin

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