Sprenger, Jakob , and Heinrich Kramer. Malleus... Lot 27

Sprenger, Jakob , and Heinrich Kramer. Malleus maleficarum, in tres divisus partes. Venice, Damiano and Bertano, 1576. Bound with: Spina, Bartolomeo. Novus malleus maleficarum sub quaestione de strigibus seu maleficisIn. Cologne, Maternus Cholinus, 1581. In 8° (150 x 95 mm). First work: [64], 505 [but 503], [9] pages. Typographic mark to title page and at end of volume; second work:[16], 398, [2] pages. Typographic mark to title page (small restoration to white margin of first four papers, small lack to white margin of one paper in second work, stamp removed from title page). Coeval vellum binding with greaseproofing, traces of two endpapers, chiseled green boards, traces of a manuscript title to smooth spine. Ex libris nobiliare. Beautiful miscellany combining two very rare editions by inquisitors against the crime of witchcraft! The Malleus of 1576 is the second Italian edition after the first of 1574, also published by Bertano.