Lot 83
83
Valeriano Bolzani (G.P.): Hieroglyphica Sive de Sacris Aegyptiorum Aliarumque Gentium literis commentarii ... a Caelio Augustino Curione duobus libri aucti, & multis imaginibus illustrati, Basel, per Thomam Guarinum, 1567, 2 vols. in one, folio, second edition, woodcut portrait on verso of title (holed with slight loss of border), emblematic woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials (g6 wormed affecting some letters and illustration, ink blotches to emblems on S6, 3C1-3), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with clasps. [Adams V51; Praz 521; Landwehr V 615; Brunet V, 1042].

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Valeriano Bolzani (G.P.): Hieroglyphica Sive de Sacris Aegyptiorum Aliarumque Gentium literis commentarii ... a Caelio Augustino Curione duobus libri aucti, & multis imaginibus illustrati, Basel, per Thomam Guarinum, 1567, 2 vols. in one, folio, second edition, woodcut portrait on verso of title (holed with slight loss of border), emblematic woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials (g6 wormed affecting some letters and illustration, ink blotches to emblems on S6, 3C1-3), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with clasps. [Adams V51; Praz 521; Landwehr V 615; Brunet V, 1042].

Lot Essay

'The diffusion of hieroglyphs was helped by the activity of Fra Urbano Valeriano Bolzano (1443-1524) who was in contact with, among others, F. Colonna and Giovanni de' Medici (Leo X) ... In Valeriano's book, hieroglyphs are wedded to the symbolism of medieval lapidaries and bestiaries, and of the Physiologus, a collection of symbols which was itself of Alexandrine provenance' (Praz).

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