DISCOURS admirable d'un Magicien de la ville de Moulins, qui - Lot 143

DISCOURS admirable d'un Magicien de la ville de Moulins, qui avait eu un Démon dans une phiole, condemné d'estre bruslé tout vif par arrest de la Cour de Parlement. Paris, Antoine Vitray, 1623. Booklet in-8, red half-chagrin, untrimmed (19th century binding). Rare opuscule, reproduced in Fournier's Variétés historiques et littéraires (t. X, 1863). Extraordinary witchcraft fact: a carpenter from Moulins named Michel, accused of evil spells and incarcerated to be heard, complained of having been molested by the Devil in his dungeon, the latter ordering him to deny God and his baptism. He was ruthlessly burned alive after a summary trial. Copy of Stanislas de Guaïta, with his silver armorial bookplate and this autograph note: pièce de sorcellerie fort curieuse et d'une insigne rareté. Purchased 40 francs net, from Claudin. The Claudin catalog card (n°75066) has been glued to one endpaper. Modern armorial bookplate Delallemand de Mont.