Málaga: Juan Serrano de Vargas y Urueña, 1637.
First Edition. Juan Alonso de Belver, a presbítero in the silk-producing city of Murcia during the Spanish Golden Age, affirms in this short, learned tract that the healing power of holy oil was consecrated directly from Christ, and that it a true.....
Strasbourg: Joannes Knobloch, 1516.
Popular German-language epitome of Bolognese astrologer and chiromancer Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles's Chiromantie ac physionomie anastasis. Cocles discusses, in 23 short chapters, the fundamentals of physiognomy: the nature of the four principal "complexions" (humors), and how to determine the character of a person by not just.....
Hamburg: 1679.
The only translation into French of The Tryal of Edward Coleman, the sensational report of the capital trial of English Catholic and alleged Titus Oates co-conspirator, Edward Coleman, in the infamously fictitious Jesuit scheme to assassinate Charles II and install upon the throne his Roman Catholic brother, the.....
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....