Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
VALERIANO BOLZANO, GIOVANNI PIETRO. Hieroglyphica; sive, De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumq[ue] gentium literis . . . editio novissima . . . accesserunt . . . Hieroglyphicorum collectanea . . . Praeterea . . . pro barbis sacerdotum & . . . poemata omnia. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the first part. [60], 760, [80]; 122, [2]; 248, [8], 21, [3] pages. 3 parts in one volume, with second part supplied from 1631 edition. 4to, 242x187 mm, contemporary vellum boards with cracks in backstrip and front joint and imperfections along fore and bottom edges of front cover; contents browned and dampstained with scattered underscoring and marginalia. 17th-century inscriptions of Philip Vourendall, pastor in Homborch, on front pastedown and title. sold as is. Cologne: Anton Hierat, 1614-31-13

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Later edition of a 1556 commentary on the 5th-century work ascribed to Horapollo interpreting Egyptian hieroglyphs.