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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Of ghosts and spirites walking by nyght, and of strange noyses, crackes, and sundry forewarnynges, whiche commonly happen before the death of menne, great slaughters, alterations of kyngdomes. One Booke, written by Lewes Lavaterus of Tigurine. And translated into Englyshe by R. H. Printed at London by Henry Benneyman for Richard VVatkyns. 1572. Full modern brown leather with raised bands and red labels on spine. New end papers. Title page in facsimile. Engraved portrait frontis with architectural and bee border (apparently supplied from Boissa's 1627 edition). Six leaves of prelims with extensive paper repairs. Seventh trimmed into text but not affecting engraved portrait on verso (also supplied from another book). 220 text leaves with nearly every leaf repaired at margins (some minimal, some extensive), but textually complete. Has final blank. One plate (also later) following pg 55. Pages 194, 195, 198, and 199 misnumbered but corrected in manuscript. Scattered early, now faded marginalia—some partially lost to marginal repairs. Decorative capitals. Set in blackletter, but some roman and italic fonts. Scattered Greed and Latin amid English text. Extra illustrated with one plate and two portraits of the author. Ludwig (Lewes) Lavater, or, Lewes Lauaterus of Tigurine (March 4th 1527 - July 5th 1586) was the son-in-law of Heinrich Bullinger, and was himself a Swiss reformed theologian. He was a pastor in Zurich and successor of Rudolf Gwalther as Archdeacon. Ye olde Wikipedia tells us this book on ghosts "was one of the most frequently printed demonological works of the early modern period, going into at least nineteen early modern editions in German, Latin, French, English and Italian." This book on ghosts is highly sought but also highly uncommon at retail or auction in this 16th century English edition. Textually complete and extra illustrated, though in a later binding, with facsimile title page, and extensive paper repairs.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very good-. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt illustration on front. Wear to extremities, top front and back corner having creasing, deckled page edges, some creasing to page edges in the back. Previous owner's name and address on front free endpaper. vii-xxvii, 10 unpaginated pages, 1- 251 pp. This book, originally printed in 1572 for the Shakespeare Association. Edited with introduction and appendix by J. Dover Wilson and Mae Yardley. English translation of the original Greek version. As of July 2025 no copies found in trade or OCLC. …

Condizione: Good. 22.5×15.5cm. The book has been cleaned. There is slight damage to the spine. There is damage to the corners. Previous owner's name on front endpaper.