Magiæ Natvralis, Sive De Miracvlis Rervm Natvralivm Libri IIII. Io. Baptista Porta Neapolitano Auctore. [bound with:] De Præstigiis Daemonvm,Et Incantationibus, ac ueneficijs, Libri V. Authore Ioanne VViero Medico. Totius Operis.

Porta: Sallander ‘Bibliotheca Walleriana’ 20134 (1644 ed.). Wellcome 5180. Not in Durling. Weyer: Sallander ‘Bibliotheca Walleriana’ 20402 (1577 ed.). G&M 4916. Norman cat 2209. Grolier One Hundred Books (medicine) 20. Durling 4734. Grässe ‘Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica’ VI:448. Kernot ‘Bibliotheca Diabolica’ p. 5. Robbins ‘The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology’ p. 538-540. Not in Wellcome or BMC. According to Worldcat only registred in 5 and 4 libraries respectively. Two of the most influential works in the late 16th century bound together. Porta: This book represents the work of one of the earliest Italian scientific institutions, the Accademia dei Segretti, a forerunner of the Accademia dei Lincei and the other great scientific societies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It epitmises the combination of credulity and empiricism tyical of the late Renaissance (Norman 1726). Weyer: The first major European work to make an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness. At the height of witchcraft delusion he argued that witches were mentally ill women who deserved humane treatment instead of torture and punishment. Weyer reduced the clinical problems of psychopathology to simple terms of everyday life and everyday, human, inner experience (Zilboorg).