Hieroglyphica, sive, De sacris Aegyptiorvm literis commentarii
By: Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bolzanii Bellvnensis
Publisher: Michael Isengrin
Published: 1556
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat; grc
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800; Egyptian language; Hieroglyphic Writing; Symbolism
Other titles: Hieroglyphica.; De sacris Aegyptiorvm literis commentarii.
Notes: Signatures: *⁶ a-z⁶ A-M⁶ N⁴ O-Ddd⁶ Eee⁸.

Printer's device (Heitz 148) on t.p. and verso of last leaf.

Leaves [7]-[14] are numbered as pages 1-15; leaf 5 is misnumbered 423.

The first word of title is xylographic.

The ill. to books 1-8 were originally produced for a Florence edition of the same year, which was not completed. Cf. Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 511.

Includes bibliography (leaf 5v) and indexes.

Praz, M. Studies in 17th cent. imagery, p. 521

Adams V50