340 - Witches - Wier, Johannes. Opera Omnia. New edition. With an engraved title vignette, an engraved portrait, 7 woodcuts, and 1 copperplate engraving. Amsterdam, van den Berge, 1660. 22 leaves, 1002 (correctly 1004) pp., 30 leaves. 21 x 16 cm. Contemporary blind-stamped parchment binding with handwritten title on the spine.

Witches - Wier, Johannes. Opera Omnia. New edition. With an engraved title vignette, an engraved portrait, 7 woodcuts, and 1 copperplate engraving. Amsterdam, van den Berge, 1660. 22 leaves, 1002 (correctly 1004) pp., 30 leaves. 21 x 16 cm. Contemporary blind-stamped parchment binding with handwritten title on the spine. First complete edition. - Caillet 11430 - Dorbon 5270 - Rosenthal 4160. - Contains, each with an intermediate title: *De Praestigiis Daemonum, & Incantationibus ac Veneficiis Libri sex*. Revised and corrected six times by the author, based on the Basel edition of 1583; Liber Apologeticus, & Pseudomonarchiae Daemonum; De Lamiis, a book; also De Commentitiis Jejuniis; De Irae Morbo, Ejusdem curatione Philosophica, Medica & Theologica, a book; Medicarvm Observationum Hactenus Incognitarum. Volumes II. - “Weyer (Wier, Wierus) was the first European physician to take an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness. At the height of the witchcraft delusion, he argued that witches were mentally ill women who deserved humane treatment instead of torture and punishment. Weyer reduced the clinical problems of psychopathology to simple terms of everyday life and everyday, human, inner experiences.” (Garrison-Morton 4916). — Slightly browned throughout due to the paper; the first leaf is slightly stained at the margins. — A good copy. *