(Égyptologie) - PIERIO VALERIANO, Giovan Pietro.- Hieroglyphica, sive De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis commentarii. A Caelio Augustino Curione duobus libris aucti, & multis imaginibus illustrati [...]. Basileae, per Thomas Guarinum,...
Estimation :
800 / 1.000
Description
1575 (mense martio). In-f° : [20]-1/12 pp.-13/441-[23] lvs (Fff2 lacking, tear in the margin of title-page repaired, tears at pp. 168 and 368 reinforced, dampstains, some pp. slightly browned, rare foxing, rare handwritten notes, some stains). 19th Century binding : calf, ribbed spine, red sprinkled edges (soiled and rubbed, scratches, spine, joints, edges and corners renewed).
Work considered as the most important of the Renaissance on egyptology and as a complete collection of that time knowledges related to hieroglyphs (symbols, emblems...). Pierio Valeriano (1477-1558), Italian humanist, has collected every informations from the ancient and modern authors, sacred or profanes, and even from the Kabbalah and the Bible. The two treatises added by Karel Utenhove (1536-1600) concern the symbols of Greek gods and mythological animals. Illustrated with more than 300 woodcuts in the text and a full-page portrait of the author. With ornemental initial letters and two printer's marks. The first edition was published in 1556. # Adams V-52; # Soltész V-14; # Machiels V-16; # USTC 662732; # VD 16 V 117; # not in Caillet (other ed.). ▲ Provenance : Samuel George Smith (1822-1900), English banker and Conservative Party politician (emblazoned ex-libris); Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent (born in 1932), former Belgian senior official (id.); Thomas D. Barlow, "March 12 1903" (handwritten mention). 11 Important manuel d'égyptologie, illustré de plus de 300 in texto et d'un portrait à pleine page de l'auteur. Plein veau du 19e s. (Fff2 manquant, qqs pp. lég. brunies, rel. défraichie, dos, mors, coupes et coins refaits).
Work considered as the most important of the Renaissance on egyptology and as a complete collection of that time knowledges related to hieroglyphs (symbols, emblems...). Pierio Valeriano (1477-1558), Italian humanist, has collected every informations from the ancient and modern authors, sacred or profanes, and even from the Kabbalah and the Bible. The two treatises added by Karel Utenhove (1536-1600) concern the symbols of Greek gods and mythological animals. Illustrated with more than 300 woodcuts in the text and a full-page portrait of the author. With ornemental initial letters and two printer's marks. The first edition was published in 1556. # Adams V-52; # Soltész V-14; # Machiels V-16; # USTC 662732; # VD 16 V 117; # not in Caillet (other ed.). ▲ Provenance : Samuel George Smith (1822-1900), English banker and Conservative Party politician (emblazoned ex-libris); Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent (born in 1932), former Belgian senior official (id.); Thomas D. Barlow, "March 12 1903" (handwritten mention). 11 Important manuel d'égyptologie, illustré de plus de 300 in texto et d'un portrait à pleine page de l'auteur. Plein veau du 19e s. (Fff2 manquant, qqs pp. lég. brunies, rel. défraichie, dos, mors, coupes et coins refaits).
