1700 OCCULT De oraculis veterum ANTON van DALE antique ILLUSTRATED 17th Century

Anton van Dale

De oraculis veterum ethnicorum dissertationes duae quarum nunc prior agit de eorum origine atque auctoribus; secunda de ipsorum duratione & interitu.

Amsterdam, Boom; 1700.

12 leaves, 694 pp., 7 leaves.


With 8 folded copperplate engravings.


Original half-leather binding with rich gilt spine.

-Caillet 10999. Brunet V, 1069. Rosenthal, Bibliotheca Magica, 1272.
 Landwehr, de Hooghe, 71. Second edition (first published 1683). -


Some wear of binding,  endpapers renewed, very good interior

Size: 6 1/4 by 8 inches

Text in Latin
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Anton van Dale (Anthonie, Antonius) (1638 – 1708) was a Dutch Mennonite preacher, physician and writer on religious subjects, described by the contemporary theologian Jean Le Clerc as an enemy of superstition.
He was a critic of witch-hunting.

His De oraculis veterum ethnicorum dissertationes  was an influential work on oracles, which he argued against the supernatural and the role of the Devil in the pagan oracular tradition.
In this he was followed two decades later by Fontenelle, who wrote his Histoire des oracles as an adaptation and popularized version of van Dale's work.
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