Dissertationes de Sibyllis earumque oraculis, cum figuris aeneis.

4to: [16]-658-[50] pp. (toned, some spotting).

Contemp. gold-tooled vellum, on covers gilt decorative frames with gilt arms of Amsterdam and at the outer corners of the central frame, gilt spine with 5 raised bands with morocco label, sp. edges (front joint splitting at head and tail). Very good copy.

Early scholarly study of the Sibylline Oracles by S. Gallaeus (1627-1689), preacher at the Walloon Church in Zierikzee. Engr. ill.: front., fold. portrait (1685) of Gallaeus and 14 full-page pl. by R. de Hooghe. Sm. coin engr. (p. 442). Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. STCN. - Caillet 10165. - Hollstein IX:46-55. - Landwehr (De Hooghe) 72. - Spoelder, Amsterdam 11 (?).
Prov. Amsterdam prize book (prize gone). - Charles Purton Cooper (1793-1873), English lawyer and antiquary (armorial bookpl.). - Mary Augusta Strachey Elton (1838-1914), English book collector (bookpl.).
Joined: Eklogai istorikai [Greek]. Selecta principum historicorum Herodoti, Thucydidis, Xenophontis, Polybii, illustres loci. Plutarchi Vitae Demosthenis et Ciceronis [ed. Daniel Wyttenbach]. Amsterdam, P. den Hengst, 1794. 8vo: xxxviii-452-[1-1 bl.] pp. (some spotting). Contemp. gilt mottled calf, covers with gilt ornamental border and central arms of Haarlem, richly gilt flat spine, gilt sides, cloth ties. Haarlem prize book awarded to Ockerus Repelaar in 1813. First half entirely printed in Greek. Ref. STCN. - Spoelder, Haarlem 3. (2 vol.)