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Covarrubias y Leyva, De frigidis et maleficiatis, Tournon, 1607, modern leather.

Lot Closed

July 18, 10:55 AM GMT

Estimate

300 - 400 GBP

Lot Details

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Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva


De frigidis et maleficiatis tractatus doctissimus, in septem quaestiones divisus, nunquam hactenus in lucem emissus. Tournon: Claude Michel, 1607


folio (276 x 194mm.), 8 leaves, woodcut printer's device on title-page, modern leather, cut somewhat close


A legal tract on the consequences of impotence for the legality of marriage, and whether it could be caused through the work of the devil rather than biologically.


LITERATURE

USTC 6810793 (recording this as a lost book, though there are 4 copies listed by CCPB)