MYSTICISM - OCCULTISM -- DEL RIO, M. Disquisitionum... Lot 1113

MYSTICISM - OCCULTISM -- DEL RIO, M. Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex. Mainz, J. Albinus, 1612. 1070 pp. Title printed in red & black. 4°. Cont. vellum w. overl. sides. (Vellum a bit loosening, paste downs detached, slightly browned). Important documentary source on first hand information concerning witchcraft and sorcery-practices and the persecution of witches etc., which was first published in Louvain 1599-1600, at least 14 more were to follow, see De Backer - Sommervogel II, 1898-1900.