Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritu[um], de vaticiniis, divinationibus, &c.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grosse, Henning, 1553-1621.

Hackius, Franciscus, active 1638-1664, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Demonology.

Magic.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

John Penington & Son, Importers and Booksellers (label)

Wilson, Joshua (autograph)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 636 pages, 34 unnumbered pages (final page blank) ; 13 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

,&i- i-x, r-i- Sasc (3) 1656 (A)

Place of Publication:

Lugd. Batavorum : Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1656.

Notes:

Signatures *¹² A-2E¹².

Engraved t.-p.

First edition published under title: Magica, seu, Mirabilium historiarum de spectris et apparitionibus spirituum ... libri II. Islebiae typis et sumpt. Henningi Grosij, 1597.

"Catalogus auctorum, e quibus histori atque exempla ista congesta sunt"--P. [21]-[24] (first count).

"Epistola dedicatoria" signed by the editor: Hennigus Grosius.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1874, of Henry Charles Lea.

Lea Library copy has the autograph of Joshua Wilson.

Lea Library copy has notes in pencil on front free end paper and a few ms. annotations, marks, and corrections throughout.

Lea Library has bookseller's label on inside pastedown which reads "John Penington & Son, Importers and Booksellers, 127 S. 7th St., Philadelphia."

Cited in:

Willems, A. Les Elzevier 1689

OCLC:

7482446