290
1150 [Emblems - hieroglyphs]
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HORAPOLLO
- Orou (…) Hieroglyphika [Greek]. Ori Apollinis
Niliaci, De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo (…) Quibus accessit uersio recens, per Io. Mercerum
Vtice(n)sem concinnata. Paris, (G. Morel for) Jacques Kerver, 1551, 8vo, 18th-c. sp. leather (sl.
rubbed), spine on 5 raised bands with gilt title piece (sm. def. at head & tail), decorative endpapers,
[20]-240-[4] pp. (some spotting & staining). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€
1200/1500
Rare ed. of a work on hieroglyphs, ascribed to Horapollo, a fictitious author, supposed to be an
Egyptian. Ill. with
195 woodcut emblems
(incl. repeats; woodcut on p. 110 pasted over blank
space). “Kerver was the first to commission the emblematic woodcuts and to print the Horapollo
text itself in the form of an emblem book” (Mortimer). This is the 1st illustrated ed. with text in
Latin and Greek (in Garamond’s “Grec du roi”). Woodcut mark at the end. Old bookpl. Raphaelis
Mecenate.
Ref.
Mortimer, French 315. Pettegree FB 74164. Adams/Rawles/Saunders, French embl.
books F.330. Landwehr, Romanic 374. Adams H-850.
1151 [Erasmus - Estienne imprint]
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TERENTIUS, Publius
- Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati
commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exemplarium collatione (…) emendatae
(…) studio & opera Des. Erasmi Roterodami. Paris, R. Estienne, 1541 (col.: 10 January 1542),
4to, cont. blindstamped and blindruled calf (partly rebacked & repaired), spine on 5 raised bands,
new endpapers, 621-[31] pp. (marg. dampstaining, t.-p. & some ff. soiled or stained, single marg.
wormhole in central quires). Good copy.
€
200/300
Typical humanist annotated ed. of Terence’s Comedies. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref.
Pettegree FB
87960. Renouard 54:11. Schreiber 67. Adams T-33. Erasmus Online 4816.
1152 [Erasmus - German imprint]
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ALGERUS, O.S.B.
- Von der Warheyt des aller heyligsten Leibs
und Bluts unsers Herren Jhesu Christi [German trsl. after the Latin ed. of Erasmus by Nicolaus
Hug]. Mainz, Ivo Schoeffer, 1551, ccxxi (= 220) ff. [bound with]
WICELIUS, Georg -
Publicum
1150
