Witchcraft.- Bodin (Jean) De magorum daemonomania, seu detestando lamiarum ac magorum cum Satana commercio, libri IV...Accessit eiusdem opinionum Ioannis Wieri confutatio, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, [Caillet 1274; VD17 1:001512L], 8vo, Frankfurt, Wolfgand Richter, 1603.

⁂ A rare edition at auction. Includes the confutation of Johann Weyer's beliefs, who considered those accused of witchcraft to be suffering from a mental illness, as so-called 'magical acts' were impossible. Consequently, he felt that those individuals should not be persecuted. Bodin's views were diametrically opposed, and he believed that witchcraft should be punishable by law.