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HORAPOLLO. [Hieroglyphica.] De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo. Greek translation by Philippus. Edited by Jean Mercier. Paris: Kerver, 1551.
8° (164 x 110mm). Text in Latin and Greek, 195 woodcut emblems, with cut pasted over blank space on G7v, Kerver's woodcut device on verso of final leaf [Renouard 514]. (Occasional scattered spots.) Contemporary vellum, gilt title on spine, gilt edges (lightly stained). Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel).
FIRST KERVER LATIN AND GREEK EDITION. With emblem on F8 printed upside down, as in the Harvard copy. Praz states that the fashion for hieroglyphs among the humanists was started by this work. The cuts, which first appeared in the French edition of 1543, are attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon, an artist identifiable by the drooping foliage of his trees and the use of solid black for birds. In the present edition, seven of the 1543 blocks have been replaced with new blocks slightly or entirely redesigned. Adams H-850; Landwehr Romanic, 387; Praz p. 374; Mortimer/Harvard French, 315; Vinet 838; cf. Fairfax Murray French, 283 (1574 edition).
8° (164 x 110mm). Text in Latin and Greek, 195 woodcut emblems, with cut pasted over blank space on G7v, Kerver's woodcut device on verso of final leaf [Renouard 514]. (Occasional scattered spots.) Contemporary vellum, gilt title on spine, gilt edges (lightly stained). Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel).
FIRST KERVER LATIN AND GREEK EDITION. With emblem on F8 printed upside down, as in the Harvard copy. Praz states that the fashion for hieroglyphs among the humanists was started by this work. The cuts, which first appeared in the French edition of 1543, are attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon, an artist identifiable by the drooping foliage of his trees and the use of solid black for birds. In the present edition, seven of the 1543 blocks have been replaced with new blocks slightly or entirely redesigned. Adams H-850; Landwehr Romanic, 387; Praz p. 374; Mortimer/Harvard French, 315; Vinet 838; cf. Fairfax Murray French, 283 (1574 edition).
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