[Witchcraft. Occultism] Two scolarly and bibliophile translations

(1) Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo of the Order of S. Ambrose AD Nemus. Compendium Maleficarum. Collected in 3 books from many sources showing the iniquitous and excrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated. Edited w. notes by Montague Summers, transl. by E. A. Ashwin. London, John Rodker. 1929. No. 4 of 1275 copies. Boards. Sm. folio. Worn, edges of spine dam. *Witch-hunters manual and study on demonology, first published in Latin in Milan, 1608.

(2) Ludovico Maria Sinistrari. Demoniality. Transl. from Latin by M. Summers. London, The Fortune Press, 1927. 1st ed. thus. One of 1200 numbered copies on batchelor hand-made paper. Buckram. *Study on incubi and succubi, written late 17th century by Sinistrari (1622-1701) but published from the manuscript in 1875 in a Latin and French edition. In 1934 the book was censored in Great Britain because of obscenity. An unknown number of copies were destroyed. Good copy. Rare. (total 2)