Historia Diaboli. Mayer.
Rare works on devil
MAYER, Johann Gottfried. Historia diaboli seu commentatio de diaboli : malorumque spirituum exsistentia, statibus, judiciis, consiliis, potestate.
Tubingen, Cotta, 1780.
600 €
8vo (7,5x4,5 inches) of xvi, 712 pages. binding: Rebound in old full hard vellum. Flat spine, titled in gilt on lettering-piece (modern). Blue edges. Lights waterstain marks.
Rare works on devil. This enormous amount of scholarship deals with the existence of the Devil by the Chaldeans, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Devil's before and after the fall, divinations and oracles, magic natural among Gentiles, Jews, Christians, etc. .
Second and final edition, greatly increased, the first of 1777 has only 280 pages.
references: Dorbon [3006].
