Praetorius, Johann (i.e. Hans Schultze). Daemonologia Rubinzali Silesii. This is, a detailed report, of the wonderful, very old, and widely-scattered ghosts of the number of turnips, which emerges, up to the vouchers in Silesia and Bohemia. 3 parts in 1 volume. 10 Bl., 292 p.; 1 Bl., 232 pp., 3 w. Bl.; 12 Bl., 264 pp. (excluding registers). 13 x 7 cm. Leather d. C.E. (stronger rubbed, corners slightly bumped, back cover at the lower capital with flaws, with some wormholes, hs. RSchild) with gold-embossed back and lid fillet. Arnstadt or Rudolstadt and Leipzig, Caspar Freyschmied for Johann Barthol Oehler, 1662-1665. Thinhead V, 3155, 10.I.2., 10 II.2. and 10.III.1. Faber du Faur II, 745d. Graesse, Bibliotheca Magica 22. Hayn, Praetorius 84. Jantz II, 2021. ADB XXVI, 524, 5. See Goedeke III, 238, 9. – Mixed edition of the first comprehensive literary design of the beet count material, handed down in various prints, main work of the polyhistorist Johannes Praetorius (1630-1680), who wrote under numerous pseudonyms. Part I is available in the slightly abbreviated later versions of two well-known versions with the printing year 1662 (see Thin Head). Contains a collection of more than 250 partly retold, partly free of the beet number stories invented by him. "This is the first large beet count book on which all later versions - including the other editors - are based" (Dünhaupt). "In spite of the holding German, Praetorius in this book has created the most vivid ghostly application of the century, a phantom which has persistent to the present time. One fearful story follows another. Rübezahl can take on any form and haunts everyone everywhere; but on the whole he remains just a humorous 'Poltergeist' and at times even turns benevolent. He is undoubtedly the most amusing of all ghosts" (Faber du Faur). – The white final sheet in Part I and the complete register at the end of Volume III are missing. A little tanned and brownish due to paper, initially also with a smaller moisture margin. Without the front fl. Purpose. Exemplary with all three parts.