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LANCRE, PIERRE DE. 1553–1631.:Tableau de l\’inconstance des mauvais anges et démons. Paris: N. Buon, 1613.
8vo (225 x 165 mm). Large folding engraved plate. 19th century red morocco gilt by L. Geutant, brown morocco gilt doublures, silk endleaves, all edges gilt. Light rubbing and a few stains to covers, small tears and fraying edges to silk endleaf at front, bookplate to verso of front endleaf, edges of title page repaired with no loss of text, first page of text re-margined at fore-edge, folding plate laid down and re-margined, attempted censoring of nude figures in plate, some browning and spotting.
Provenance: Stanislas de Guaita (French poet, 1861-1897, signed notation on front flyleaf).
Second, revised edition, with the rare \”Sabbat des Sorciers\” folding plate, often lacking. Lancre, a judge from Bordeaux, was ordered by King Henri IV to put an end to witchcraft in the Basque country. Lancre, who harbored an animus for the Basque that is made evident in this work, sentenced several dozen people to be burned at the stake. Cf. Caillet II:408 (first edition); Dorbon Bibliotheca esoterica, 256:2467; USTC 6016932.