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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Romeyn de Hooghe (illustrator). Hardcover, 16 x 10 cm, 16 + 551 + 27 pages, Dutch, condition: Very Good First Dutch translation of this writing against pagan divine sayings by Van Dale "De oraculis veterum ethnicorum dissertationes" (1683), The frontispiece and the seven striking engravings by Romeyn De Hooghe are present, each accompanied by an unnumbered sheet with explanatory legends (as always, the legend is missing for the first engraving). 20th-century binding. Anthoni van Dale (Haarlem, November 8, 1638 Haarlem, November 28, 1708) was a Dutch Anabaptist preacher, physician, and writer on religious subjects. Described by the theologian Jean le Clerc as an enemy of superstition. He was a critic of the witch hunts and a representative of the Enlightenment. Until the age of 30, he was a merchant. He then studied medicine, obtained his doctorate, and became a physician. At the same time, he studied classical languages and became an important Latin scholar. Romeyn de Ho(o)g(h)e (Amsterdam, September 10, 1645 Haarlem, June 15, 1708) was a Northern Dutch etcher, drawer of 3,500 prints, caricaturist (under the pseudonym Marlois), painter, iconographer, goldsmith, enameler, book illustrator, publisher of maps. [This description may have been translated by AI.].