WESTPHAL (Johannes-Caspard). *Pathologia daemoniaca, id est - Lot 220

WESTPHAL (Johannes-Caspard). *Pathologia daemoniaca, id est Observationes & Meditationes Physiologico-Magico-Medicae*... Leipzig, Heirs of Friedrich Lanckis, 1707. In-4, half-vellum, circa 1900. A rare first edition of this treatise on demonic pathologies by a German physician who attributes their causes to witchcraft and the influence of demons. The work is not listed in Dorbon or Caillet. A copy that belonged to Philippe-Henri Boecler, an 18th-century physician from Strasbourg, with his engraved coat-of-arms bookplate. Browning and water stains.

Estimate:£333.86

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