AN EXAMEN OF WITCHES: DRAWN FROM VARIOUS TRIALS OF MANY OF THIS SECT IN THE DISTRICT OF SAINT OYAN DE JOUX, COMMONLY KNOWN AS SAINT CLAUDE IN THE COUNTRY OF BURGUNDY, INCLUDING THE PROCEDURE NECESSARY TO A JUDGE IN TRIALS FOR WITCHCRAFT
Book Details + Condition: John Rodker (Suffolk, England), 1929. An increasingly scarce edition limited to 1275 copies, this being number 209. Small 8vo hardcover, 328 pages. Title page in black and red, initials and shoulder notes in red. Bound in green vellum boards with gilt spine title. Compiled in the late 16th century by the chief justice who served as France's inquisitor, Henry Boguet [1550-1619]. Translated by E. Allen Ashwin and edited by occult academic and author, Montague Summers. First published in 1590, "An Examen of Witches or, Discours Sorciers" serves as a witch-hunter's handbook, and describes the witch trials conducted by Boguet, including a chapter 'on the procedure necessary to a judge in the trials for witchcraft.' It recounts the trial proceedings and accusations - making pacts with the devil, shape-shifting, and other practices of sorcery - for which social outcasts were tortured and condemned.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; normal aging and wear to full vellum boards; Parker's bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
