FROMANN, Johann Christian (1623-1695). Tractatus de fascinatione novus et singularis. Nuremberg: Endter, 1675. First edition of this extensive treatise on 'fascination' or the enchantment of people, divided into three sections: vulgar, natural, and magical (or demonic) fascination. Aimed at theologians, jurists, physicians, and provincial priests frequently confronted with superstition; including the belief in verbal healing; this work combines rationalism with supernatural beliefs. Frommann denies the possibility of visual or vocal fascination, asserting that witches and sorcerers cannot cause harm through gaze or voice. However, he also argues that those who deny magic or demons are themselves either magicians or atheists, and affirms the reality of diabolic fascination, attributing to the devil the ability to act upon the human imagination. 4to (212 x 165mm). Engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black; sporadic browning; bound in English half-morocco (second half 19th century); worn; Provenance: blindstamp of the Wigan Library (1878-1892); inscription 'bought July 1892, H J F.'; 20th-century ownership signature of Walter Moseley. (1)