Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Horapollo, Hieroglyphica, Paris, 1551, contemporary vellum, the Yates–Thompson–Bright copy

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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HORAPOLLO. [Hieroglyphica.] De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo. Greek translation by Philippus. Edited by Jean Mercier. Paris: Guillaume Morel for Jacques Kerver, 1551


FIRST KERVER LATIN AND GREEK EDITION of a work central to the humanist study of hieroglyphs. The woodcuts are attributed to Jean Cousin (or Jean Goujon).

8vo (164 x 110 mm). Roman and Greek types. collation: A8 B2 A-P8 Q2: 132 leaves. 195 woodcut emblems, woodcut pasted over blank space on G7v, emblem on F8 printed upside down, as in the Harvard copy, printer’s woodcut device on verso of final leaf [Renouard 514]. 


binding: Contemporary vellum, gilt title on spine, gilt edges. (A couple of tiny wormholes.)


provenance: Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), by descent to—Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates (1842-1903), book label, by descent to—Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941), Catalogue of emblem books, and of a few other similar books (Liverpool 1913), p.9, by descent until sold, Christie's, London, 16 July 2014, lot 117. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Adams, F-330; Mortimer French, 315; USTC 154131

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