JOHANN

WEYER’S Ioannes Wierus (1515–1588), a Dutch physician and occultist who was among the first to argue against the persecution of witches.

BOOK ON WITCHES: original: "De Lamiis". While 'Lamiae' specifically refers to a type of female demon in mythology, in this context, it refers to those accused of witchcraft.

ALSO

ON FEIGNED

FASTS, original: "De Commentitiis Ieiuniis". This refers to Weyer's investigation into people who claimed to live without eating, which he often exposed as fraud or medical delusion.

With a copious

INDEX of subjects and words.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VITTORIO EMANUELE IN ROME This is a later library ownership stamp from the 19th or 20th century.

THE FATES FIND A WAY. original: "Fata viam inveniunt," a quote from Virgil's Aeneid. ARION. A legendary Greek harper saved by a dolphin; he was the symbol used by the Oporinus printing house. NO WAY IS IMPASSABLE TO VIRTUE. original: "Invia virtuti nulla est via."

With the favor and privilege A 16th-century form of copyright protection granted by monarchs. of His Imperial Majesty The Holy Roman Emperor.

and the King of the French.

BASEL, FROM THE

Oporinus Press, 1577. Johannes Oporinus was one of the most famous scholar-printers of the Renaissance.