Traicte des anges et demons

A Paris: chez Francois Huby, 1607. Book in French. In-12. Engreved title page in black, 7 sheets unnumbered and 242 numbered sheets. Later XIX c. full brown blind stamped calf. Gold lettering and ornamenting spine, red lables. Red paper edges. Clean ecrue endpapers. Nice ornameting and lettering, initial letters, some light browning and few water stains inside. Otherwise very clean without any anotations, marks or stamps. Complete. 2nd rare edition (First, 1605) of interesting and influential work on demonology and angelology. Very uncommon issue on the market. Rare in any edition. Tratise deals with the angels' names, their immortality, movement and the power by Spanish Jesuit theologian Juan de Maldonado (1533-1583). Juan Maldonado was a scholar and demonologist known for his profound knowledge of ancient languages. "Traicté des anges et demons" is a translation of some lectures of Maldonado, collected and translated by Canon Fr. Arnault de La Borie (1525?-1607) in 1605 and published in the same year in French. Bibliography: Coumont M:11.8., Wellcome I:3996., Not in Caillet (other ed. 7042), USTC No. 6024485. Provenance: No markings (?).