MALLEUS MALEFICARUM / DER HEXENHAMMER - Sprenger, 1920 WITCHCRAFT WITCHES HAMMER

MALLEUS MALEFICARUM - THE WITCHES HAMMER BY JAKOB SPRENGER AND HEINRICH INSTITORIS (HEINRICH KRAMER); TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN FOR THE FIRST TIME AND INTRODUCED BY J.W.R. SCHMIDT [MALLEUS MALEFICARUM - DER HEXENHAMMER VON JACKOB SPRENGER UND HEINRICH INSTITORIS; ZUM ERSTEN MALE INS DEUTSCHE IIBERTRAGEN UND EINGELEITET VON J.W.R. SCHMIDT]Book Details + Condition: Hermann Barsdorf Publisher (Berlin). Second Edition, 1920. Very scarce. First German translation of the famous witchcraft work, originally written in Latin in 1486. Complete three-volume hardcover set, which has been rebound in dark red cloth, with gilt to spine and floral endpapers. Pagination: 216pp; 273pp; 228pp - with Index. This is the first 20th-century translation of the well known occult treatise "Malleus Maleficarum". "Dominican friars Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger were charged by Pope Innocent VIII, with the Bull of 1484, which had essentially ratified the Church's powers in dealing with witchcraft, heresy and oth