Aspire Auctions -"The History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern: in Two Parts with a Description of the Devil's Dwelling", 1793, "Malleus Maleficarum: Translated with an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes by the Rev. Montague Summers", 1928, and "The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The most Ancient and the Most Important of the Extant Religious Texts of Ancient Egypt Edited with Introduction, a Complete Translation and Various Chapters on its History, Symbolism etc." Charles Davis, H. S. Editor

Aspire Auctions

September 2006 Fine Arts and Antiques Auction

1039. "The History of the Devil, Ancient and Modern: in Two Parts with a Description of the Devil's Dwelling", 1793, "Malleus Maleficarum: Translated with an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes by the Rev. Montague Summers", 1928, and "The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The most Ancient and the Most Important of the Extant Religious Texts of Ancient Egypt Edited with Introduction, a Complete Translation and Various Chapters on its History, Symbolism etc." Charles Davis, H. S. Editor

1) London: A. Law, W. Millar, and E. Catar, 1793. 12mo. viii, 304 pp. Full brown leather; spine with gilt title dyed red leather inset. Front fly page missing. 2) John Rodker, 1928. Numbered copy 831 in limited edition of 1275; first English translation from the edition 1489. Tall quatro, 278 pp. in double-column text; frontispiece engraving of Pope Innocent VIII. Tan cloth boards, red vellum spine, gilt letters and decoration, deckled edges on Dutch paper made especially for this edition. The Malleus Maleficarum (trans. "The Hammer of Witches") is probably the most infamous book on witchcraft ever written. A manual on the detection, trial, and punishment of witches, it was widely used during the Inquisitions of the 15th and 16th centuries. 3) New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. First edition, with 99 plates reproduced from the Turin Papyrus and the Louvre Papyrus. Folio, vi, 186 pp., 20 plates, and 79 plates, some fold out plates. Original dark green cloth with gilt letters and yellow ochre decoration.

200/400 Sold $218.50
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