DEMONIALITY
Book Details + Condition: Benjamin Blom, Inc (New York). First modern reprint, 1972. "De Dæmonialitate, et Incubis et Succubis" attempts to prove that spirits exist; the author differentiates these spirits from demons, to emphasize that they can be saved, and that consorting with them is not tantamount to Satanism. Much attention is given to the sexual congress between these spirits (Incubi and Succubi) and human beings. It was written by the famous Franciscan theologian Lodovico Maria Sinistrari (1622 -1701), but not published until 1875, after the heretical manuscript was discovered in a small London bookstore. The print run was very small and the book immediately rare, so Montague Summers brought out this new translation, with a thorough Introduction, under the Fortune Press imprint in 1927. The book quickly became the target of British censors, and in 1934 the work was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. All copies were condemned and ordered to be destroyed. The number of copies destroyed remains unknown, but the book is incredibly scarce; more than its stated limitation suggests. (Please see our listing for this exceptionally scarce edition.)
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. An increasingly scarce edition in like-new condition, with firm binding; Parker's bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings save his info to ffep.
