Sybillina Oracula, aucta, renovata et notis illustrata a D. Iohanne Opsopaeo, cum interpretatione Latina Sebastiani Castalionis, [praemissus est Onuphrii Panvini De Sybillis et Carminibus Sibyllinis Liber], Paris, 1599, 8vo, engraved title and 12 illustrations of the Sibyls by Carol de Mallery (2B4 with burnhole affecting running title) -- Oracula Magica Zoroastris, cum Plethonis et Pselli scholiis, nunc primum editis, Paris, 1599, 8vo -- Oracula Metrica Jovis, Appolinis, Hecates, Serapidis, [ed.] J. Opsopoeo. Item Astrampsychi Oneirocriticon a Jos. Scaligero digestum et castigatum, Paris, 1599, 8vo, three vols. in one, parallel text in Greek and Latin, early 19th-century calf, gilt, g.e. (corners rubbed). [Brunet V, 370; Hoffman III, 581]

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Sybillina Oracula, aucta, renovata et notis illustrata a D. Iohanne Opsopaeo, cum interpretatione Latina Sebastiani Castalionis, [praemissus est Onuphrii Panvini De Sybillis et Carminibus Sibyllinis Liber], Paris, 1599, 8vo, engraved title and 12 illustrations of the Sibyls by Carol de Mallery (2B4 with burnhole affecting running title) -- Oracula Magica Zoroastris, cum Plethonis et Pselli scholiis, nunc primum editis, Paris, 1599, 8vo -- Oracula Metrica Jovis, Appolinis, Hecates, Serapidis, [ed.] J. Opsopoeo. Item Astrampsychi Oneirocriticon a Jos. Scaligero digestum et castigatum, Paris, 1599, 8vo, three vols. in one, parallel text in Greek and Latin, early 19th-century calf, gilt, g.e. (corners rubbed). [Brunet V, 370; Hoffman III, 581]

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Carel de Mallery (c. 1576-1630) was a Flemish artist who worked in the manner of the Wierixes; he later moved to Paris where the series of the twelve Sibyls was his first attempt in the field of book illustration. The printer's device on all three titles is a finely-executed illustration of a galleon, used by the Societas Typographica in Paris. Fragments of Sybilline verse were published for the first time in the Miscellanea of Politien, Florence, 1489.

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