Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesuntini De divinatione & magicis praestigiis : quarum veritas ac vanitas solidè exponitur per descriptionem deorum fatidicorum qui olim responsa dederunt : eorundemque prophetarum, sacerdotum, phoebadum, sybyllarum & divinorum, qui priscis temporibus celebres oraculis exstiterunt ; adjunctis simul omnium effigiebus, ab ipso autore e gemmis, marmoribus, tabulisq[ue] antiquis ad vivum delineatus : jam modo eleganter aeri incisis per Joh. Theodor. de Bry ...

Includes errata, last p.

Includes index.

Signatures: )(-2)(⁴ 3)(⁶ A-2Y⁴.

Engraved t.p., frontispiece, and coat of arms of the dedicatees. Engraved ports. of Broissard and de Bry, p. [20] and [24]. That of de Bry is dated 1615, which has been taken as possible date of publication. In-text ill. are standing ports. of soothsayers, oracles, etc., of antiquity. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

"Auctores qui in hoc libro citantur"--P. [25]-[28].

Mode of access: Internet.

On front pastedown is printed label of David and Lulu Borowitz. Bibliographical inscriptions at head of front pastedown and on front free endpaper verso.

Binding: old vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of green cloth ties at foredge. Page edges blue.