Live auction - Lot 1381
[Prize binding - Amsterdam]
[Greek text], Hoc est Sibyllina oracula [...] Operâ & studio Servatii Gallaei [...].
Amsterdam, H. & Widow Th. Boom, 1689
€ 120 / 160
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., 4to: [28, engr. title incl.]-791-[27], 127 pp. (foxing, sm. marg. damp stain).
Contemp. vellum, covers decorated with central coat of arms and four smaller in corners, and ruled with two roll-stamps, gilt orn. spine (central coat of arms) with raised bands, sprinkled edges.
First edition translated from the Greek and edited (with extended notes) by the philologist Servaes Galle (1627-1709) of the Sibylline Oracles, collection of oracular prophecies in which Jewish and Christian doctrines are confirmed by a sibyl. With in the second part the "Oracula metrica Jovis, Apollonis, Hecates, Serapidis, et aliorum deorum ac vatum tam virorum quam foeminarum" ed. by Johannes Opsopeus; the "Oneirocriticon" or "Somniorum interpretatio" of Astrampsychus ed. by Joseph Scaliger; and the "Oracula magica Zoroastris [...]" or the Chaldean Oracles by Julian the Theurgist ed. by Opsopeus. Texts in Greek & Latin. Illustrated with an engr. title.
Ref. STCN. - Brunet II:68. - Caillet 10179. - Spoelder, Amsterdam 9.
Prov. Amsterdam prize book (prize gone). - Charles Purton Cooper (1793-1873), English lawyer and antiquarian (armorial bookpl.). - A second unidentified bookpl.