VALERIANO BOLZANO, Giovanni Pierio (1477-1558). Hieroglyphica sive de sacris Aegyptiorum literis commentarii, Basle: Michel Isengrin, 1556. 2° (332 x 217mm). Printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, full-page woodcut of the author within border by T. Stimmer on verso of title, 245 woodcut illustrations, historiated initials, errata at end, laudatory poem in Greek by C. Utenhoven on verso. (Title starting to detach, *2 with long but clean laminated repair, D4 with clean tear affecting 5 lines of text, light, mainly marginal, spotting.) Contemporary lavishly blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, the covers with rectangular panels of foliate and floral motifs and small circular armorials, 4 raised bands, manuscript title on spine, clasps (clasps repaired, spine and front joints chipped, rear cover with old repair, quite rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Sancti verbami bibliothecae" (manuscript inscription on title).