Joannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis Hieroglyphica, sive, De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis, commentariorum libri LVIII
Subtitle: duobus aliis ab eruditissimo viro annexis. Accesserunt loco auctarii, Hieroglyphicorum collectanea, ex veteribus & recentioribus auctoribus descripta, & in sex libros ordine alphabetico digesta; item Horapollinis Hieroglyphicorum libri duo ex postrema Davidis Hoeschelii correctione. Praeterea ejusdem Pierii Declamatiuncula pro barbis sacerdotum; De infelicitate literatorum libri duo; denique Antiquitatum Bellunensium sermones quatuor
Contributors: Curione, Celio Augustino, 1538-1567; Horapollo; Hoeschel, David, 1556-1617; Hertzbergk, C., 17th cent; Kirchner, Christian, 17th cent; Möwald, Wendelin, fl. 1672-1680
Edition: Editio ad novissimas Germaniae composita, quibus & annotationes ad marginem atque necessarios indices debet.
Publisher: sumptibus Christiani Kirchneri, typis Wendelini Moewaldi
Published: 1678
Place of publication: Francofurti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 760
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Emblems; Hieroglyphic Writing; Egyptian language
Other titles: Hieroglyphica, sive, De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis; De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis
Work titles: Hieroglyphica
Notes: First published Basel, 1556. Present ed. also issued at Leipzig; see VD17. The 2 additional books following Valeriano are by Celio Augustino Curione; see Praz.

Hieroglyphicorum collectanea has special added t.p. and is separately paged and signed.

Engraved frontispiece port. of Valeriano, signed: Leip. C. Hertzbergk sculp. In-text woodcut ill. Kirchner's device on both t.p.'s.  Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

VD17 3:306753H

Praz, M.  Studies in 17th-century imagery (2nd ed.), p. 521