Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu, Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Hoc est Vniuersalis hieroglyphicae veterum doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio. Opus ex omni orientalium doctrina & sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diuersarum linguarum authoritate stabilitum, felicibus auspicijs Ferdinandi III. Austriaci sapientissimi & inuictissimi Romanorum Imperatoris semper Augusti è tenebris erutum, atque bono reipublicae literariae consecratum. ...
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1652 - 1655
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3209512
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. in 4 : ill., maps, port. ; fol. Running number: 6003. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf of vol. 1: "M. 4. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "Β-ς.'" [i.e. Beta-stigma' = Greek number 2-6]. Bookseller's[?] price codes on rear fly-leaf of vol. 1: "u-P-0" [crossed-out] and "u-u-5". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on six raised bands; upper board of vol. 1 detached; double blind fillet border, with additional double blind fillet running parallel to spine-edge; gilt fillet along board edges; gilt floral stamp in panels on spines; gilt title on brown sheepskin label on spines; gilt vol. number stamped directly onto spines. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), author Cornelis Bloemaert II (Utrecht 1603 - Rome 1692) , engraver (printmaker) Giovanni Angelo Canini (1609/17 - 1666) , artist Pietro Miotte (fl.1637-1656), engraver (printmaker) Jacopo, Bichi (fl.17th century), artist Dominique Barrière (1618-1678), engraver (printmaker) G. Ba Balatri, engraver (printmaker)