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1693000166Franeker: Jacobum Horreum 1693. Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp. 12 768 28. Half title for each section. Bound in quarter vellum with paste paper boards - well rubbed. Library book plate on inside front cover. Title page displays a large woodcut device. Pages are clean overall with occasional spotting and age toning; faint inscription above title page device; outer margin of pp.735-6 reinforced with contemporary paper. Fore edge of the text block is a bit rubbed. The bottom edge is stamped with a library name. Board corner tips neatly repaired. Johann Van der Waeyen 1639-1701 was a Frisian Minister scholar and controversialist. In 1677 he was forced to leave his position in Middelburg and move to Franeker. See M'Clintock Cyclopaedia of Biblical Lit. Among his better known works is a commentary on Balthasar Bekker's book on witchcraft. Van der Waeyen's interest in demonology is also apparent in this collection of tracts which contains two essays 485 pages on the demon AZAZEL who was associated with the Israelite scape-goat ritual. The book also contains a commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and several other essays. <br/> <br/> Jacobum Horreum hardcover
