Author: BLONDEL, D.- divination.- 1649
Title: Des Sibylles célèbrées tant par l'antiquité payenne que par les Saincts Pères, discours traittant des noms & du nombre des Sibylles...
Description: Charenton, Par la Veufve L.Perier & N. Perrier, demeurans à Paris rue Neufue Saincte Anne, près le Palais, au Roy de Suede, 1649. 4to. W. woodc.vignet o.t. Contemp. clf., spine gilt, lower outer hinge weak, upper outer hinge splitting, corners badly rubb./ bumped. [...]. (XVI, 515, I pp.). (w.some old. [18th c?] ms. notes in the margins; lf. 213 rep. no loss of text.). (Throughout medium to heavy browning of the text.). Biogr.Univ. II, 341: B. (1591-1655) was a protestant minister and scholar. He succeeded Vossius as prof. of history at Amsterdam: Caillet I, 1235: 'Rare': Thorndike VIII, 476: Most arts of divination were only of interest as relics of classical antiquities. Books on this subject continued to be written in the 17th century:

Keywords: 16th 17th occultism magic superstition theology W68