Les hieroglyphiques de Ian-Pierre Valerian vulgairement nomme Pierius, autrement, Commentaires des lettres et figures sacrées des Aegyptiens & autres nations : oeuvre reduicte en cinquante huict liures, ausquels sont adjoincts deux autres de Coelius Curio, touchant ce qui est signifié par les diuerses effigies, et pourtraicts des dieux, et des hommes /
Valeriano, Pierio,1477-1560.
Gaultier, Léonard,1561-1641,illustrator.
Horapollo.Hieroglyphica.
Curione, Celio Augustino,1538-1567
Montlyard, Jean de,active 1590
Balfour, James,Sir,1600-1657,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.a.8
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.a.8
Anstruther, William,active 1628,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.a.8
D'Aubigny, Ludovic Stuart,Seigneur,1619-1665,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.a.8
CharlesI,King of England,1600-1649,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.a.8
Barnbougle Castle.Library,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.a.8
A Lyon : Par Paul Frellon,
1615.
Translation of: Hieroglyphica, siue, De sacris Aegyptiorum literis commentarii.
Originally planned as an interpretation of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica.
Colophon reads En l'imprimerie de Iacques du Creux, dict Molliard.
Manuscript inscription on the front pastedown in a nineteenth-century hand "Old Scottish binding the property of James Balfour the author of the Annals with his autograph". Below that the armorial bookplate of "Archibald Philip Earl of Rosebery".  Manuscript inscription on the recto of the front free endpaper "19 July 1631 Domino Ludovico Steuarto Hoc munusculum Qualecumq[ue] D.D. In veri amoris obsequio Jacobis Balfourius Kynardiæ Miles Leo Rex Armoru[m]." Stamp of Barnbougle Castle Catalogue at the head of the front free endpaper. Manuscript inscription on the title page "Z.R.D." Armorial bookplate of James Balfour on the title page, with a manuscript inscription below "Jacobus Balfourius Kyncardiæ Miles Leo Rex Armorum R".  Manuscript inscription at the head of page one "William Anstruther. 20 Dece[m]b[er] 1628". Manuscript inscription on the back pastedown in an eighteenth-century hand, struck through "Merchant Conpry[?]".
Arms of Charles I stamped and gilded on front and back boards.
Illustrated books
Title pages
France Lyon.