Si la torture est un moyen seur a verifier les crimes secrets
Subtitle: dissertation morale et juridique : par laquelle il est amplement traitté des abus qui se commettent par tout en l'instruction des procés criminels, & particulierement en la recherche du sortilege : ouvrage necessaire à tous juges, tant souverains que subalternes, & à tous avocats consultans & patrocinans
By: par Mre. Augustin Nicolas, conseiller du Roy, & maistre des requestes ordinaire de son hostel au Parlement de la Franche-Comté de Bourgogne
Contributors: Wolfgang, Abraham, active 1658-1694, bookseller, printer
Publisher: Chez Abraham Wolfgang, près de la Bourse
Published: 1681
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Torture; Early works to 1800; Witchcraft; Trials (Witchcraft); Women; Sources; Violence against; History; Human rights
Other titles: De la tortur.; De la tortvr.
Notes: Signatures: A-O⁸ P⁴.

The first six pages (leaves A1-A3) are unnumbered.

Includes index at end (last four leaves P1-P4).

With errata at foot of last page (leaf P4 verso).

With woodcut title-page vignette; woodcut head- and tailpiece; initials.

With printed marginalia.

Presented to Edinburgh University Library by Andrew Malkiewicz, May 2013.

Binding: 17th-century leather (marbled calf) over boards; gilt-tooled fillet roll on front & rear board edges; gilt-tooled spine with decorated compartments and 7 raised bands (including two at head & foot of spine); all edges of leaves sprinkled red.