VALERIANO BOLZANI, Giovanni Pierio. Hieroglyphica, sive de sacris Aegyptiorum , and two books by Caelius Augustinus Curio. Lyons: Bartholomaeus Honorat, 1579. Large 2° (353 x 234mm). Large printer's device (Baudrier 1) on first title, device (Baudrier 13) on second title, many woodcuts of emblematic figures and animals, ornamental woodcut initials. (Some browning and light spotting.) Modern vellum-backed boards (slightly rubbed). Provenance : Robert Honeyman IV (sale Sotheby's 19 May 1981, no.3020). "A major contribution to emblem literature" (Mortimer Harvard French 534). For this edition Honorat purchased in 1578 a new series of woodcuts from the Florentine merchant Philippe Tinghi, an associate of the Giunta family. Adams V-53; Baudrier IV, p.136; not in Praz or Landwehr.
VALERIANO BOLZANI, Giovanni Pierio. Hieroglyphica, sive de sacris Aegyptiorum , and two books by Caelius Augustinus Curio. Lyons: Bartholomaeus Honorat, 1579. Large 2° (353 x 234mm). Large printer's device (Baudrier 1) on first title, device (Baudrier 13) on second title, many woodcuts of emblematic figures and animals, ornamental woodcut initials. (Some browning and light spotting.) Modern vellum-backed boards (slightly rubbed). Provenance : Robert Honeyman IV (sale Sotheby's 19 May 1981, no.3020). "A major contribution to emblem literature" (Mortimer Harvard French 534). For this edition Honorat purchased in 1578 a new series of woodcuts from the Florentine merchant Philippe Tinghi, an associate of the Giunta family. Adams V-53; Baudrier IV, p.136; not in Praz or Landwehr.
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