Lot 947
947
DICKINSON, E. Delphi phoenicizantes, sive, tractatus in quo Graecos, quicquid apud Delphos celebre erat (…) e Josuae historia, scriptisque sacris effinxisse rationibus haud inconcinnis ostenditur (…). Oxf., H. Hall, 1655. (38), 142, (16), 40, (9) pp. Sm-8°. Fine mod. cf. bind.
First edition of this influential little book by the Oxford physician and alchemist Edmund Dickinson (1624 - 1707), which postulated a Hebrew origin for certain phenomena in Greek mythology. It is preceded by an essay on sea monsters, the Gigantes of Hiob 25:6, written by Zacharias Bogan (1625 - 1659), also an orientalist of some fame. - Brunet II, 689.€ 200
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