Author: Gallaeus, Servatius [Gervais Gallé 1627?-1709]
Title: DISSERTATIONES DE SIBYLLIS, earumque Oraculis cum figuris aeneis [Dissertations on the Sibyls and their Oracles with copperplate illustrations].
Description: Amsterdam, Apud Henricum & Viduam Theodori Boom 1688 Folding copperplate portrait of Gallé signed R. de Hooge [Romeyn de Hooghe] 1686 + engraved titlepage + 10 of 14 copperplates + a few text illustrations. . Quarto contemporary calf tooled lacking most of spine (covers detached/corners very worn). Folding portrait, engraved title, title page +[12] +[24] +658pp +[26]pp indexes. Appears to lack 4 of the plates of Sibyls. Some gatherings coming loose from spine. Text in Latin with brief passages in Greek, some Greek text with parallel Latin translation. *Imperfect copy, in need of binding repair, priced accordingly.

Keywords: oracles fortune occult Greek Roman sibyls


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