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BERGER, CHRISTOPH HEINRICH VON.
Commentatio de personis vulgo
larvis seu mascheris. Von der Carnavals-Lust critico historico morali atque
juridico modo diligenter conscripta.
155 engraved illustrations on 87 leaves, including
frontispiece. [16], 340, [74] pages, including errata and binder’s instructions at end. 4to,
203x166 mm, contemporary calf gilt; contents toned, indistinct stamp on title, illustrations
37, 39, 70, 115, and 118 mounted, blank upper margin of last leaf excised. Armorial book-
plate of Christian Ernst Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1691-1771).
Frankfurt & Leipzig: Georg Marc Knoch, (1723)
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
of a history of masquerades and carnivals, and laws pertaining to them. The
illustrations show the characters in each scene of the 6 extant comedies of Terence, copied in part
from the miniatures in Codex Vaticanus 3868. Hiler, page 81; Lipperheide (1963) 3169.
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BACON, FRANCIS, Sir.
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall . . .
Newly enlarged.
[10] (of [12]), 340, [38] (of [40]) pages; lacks initial and final blanks. 4to,
187x130 mm, 20th-century
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brown levant gilt; later pencil marginalia throughout, open-
ing leaves soiled and dampstained, first 3 leaves trimmed in blank outer margin, title and
A4 mounted. Gibson 16; STC 1150.
London: John Haviland, 1632
[200/300]
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BEKKER, BALTHASAR.
Die bezauberte Welt; oder, Eine gründliche Unter-
suchung des allgemeinen Aberglaubens, betreffend, die Arth und das Vermögen,
Gewalt, und Wirckung des Satans und der bösen Geister über den Menschen.
Engraved plate depicting the Oldenburg horn. 39, [1], 136 [i. e., 144]; 270, [2]; 179 [i. e.,
197], [3]; 308, [4] pages. 4to, 218x168 mm, contemporary vellum boards, soiled; occasional
light toning and minor marginal foxing of text, light soiling on title, plate browned, early
owner’s notes on front endpapers.
Amsterdam: Daniel von Dahlen, 1693
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN
of Bekker’s controversial attack on belief in witchcraft and
demonic possession, originally published in 1691-93 as De Betoverde Wereld. Norman 162.