(1602). VALERIANO (Pierio). HIEROGLYPHICA, SEU DE SACRIS ÆGY - Lot 424

(1602). VALERIANO (Pierio). HIEROGLYPHICA, SEU DE SACRIS ÆGYPTIORUM aliarumque gentium literis commentarii - Pro sacerdotum barbis. Lyon, Paul Frellon, 1602. 2 parts of [16]-644-[44]-47-[2] pages in an in-folio volume, yellow rough basane (period binding). Engraved portrait. Giampietro Valeriano Bolzani, known as Pierio Valeriano (1477-1558), with his commentaries, compiled a veritable explanatory encyclopedia of symbols, illustrated with almost 300 JOLIS BOIS GRAVES in the text. The first book offers the hieroglyphic meanings of all animals: lions, ostriches, dolphins, pelicans... The second, more eclectic, deals with human physiognomy, clothing, tools, trees, vegetables and fruit, navigation and ships on the Nile, weapons, stone, paper... Spine missing, binding damaged, foxing. (Caillet 10978).