GRILLANDI, Paolo (b. ca. 1490). Tractatus de hereticis. Lyon: [Benedictus Boninus for] Jacobus Giunti, 1536. 8° (154 x 105mm). Title-page in red and black with woodcut of Grillandi lecturing within woodcut border, woodcut initials, device on verso of final leaf. (Tear to upper corner of title with minor loss to border, a few leaves reinforced at inner margin, some soiling and browning.) Modern cloth backed in leather, gilt title and shelf-mark label on spine (spine rubbed). Provenance: early annotations -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamps on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamp on title).

GRILLANDI, Paolo (b. ca. 1490). Tractatus de hereticis. Lyon: [Benedictus Boninus for] Jacobus Giunti, 1536. 8° (154 x 105mm). Title-page in red and black with woodcut of Grillandi lecturing within woodcut border, woodcut initials, device on verso of final leaf. (Tear to upper corner of title with minor loss to border, a few leaves reinforced at inner margin, some soiling and browning.) Modern cloth backed in leather, gilt title and shelf-mark label on spine (spine rubbed). Provenance: early annotations -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. Letteraria (stamps on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamp on title).

A RARE second edition of a work considered a standard text on witchcraft and demonology. Paolo Grillando was a doctor of canon and civil laws and a judge in trials for witchcraft. This treatise, first published in Bologna in 1527, is based on his judicial experience.