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First notable work on Egyptology

PIGNORIUS, Laurentius (Lorenzo).
Mensa Isiaca, qua sacrorum apud Aegyptios ratio & simulacra subjectis aeneis simul exhibentur  & explicantur. - With separate title-page: IDEM. Magnae Deum matris idae ae & Attidis initia. Ex vetustis monumentis nuper Tornaci & Nerviorum erutis.

Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text.

Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text.

Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text.

Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text.

Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text.



Amsterdam, Andreas Frisius, 1669-1670. 2 works in one (as published). 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Engraved title by A. Blotelingh. With three titles with engraved vignettes by A. Blotelingh. The first work with 11 folding engraved plates with hieroglyphics, 6 full-page engraved plates, and smaller engravings in text. The second work (in two parts) with 3 full-page engraved plates and several smaller engravings in text. (8), 96, (11); (8), 96 pp.

Third and best edition of two important works on Egyptian archaelogy, the first edition with this title and form, originally published together, written by Lorenzo Pignorius. The first work, a famous study on the Egyptian artefact known as the '' Mensa Isiaca'',  is the first notable work on Egyptology (first published at Venice, 1605, titled " Vetustissimae tabulae Aeneae sacris Egyptiorum simulacris ....''). The Mensa Isiaca was a bronze table top, discovered  in the ruins of the temple of Isis in Rome at around 1525 and believed to be executed in Rome in the first century A.D. Pignorius studied this very famous artefact when it was in the possesion of Cardinal Bembo. Pignorius idea about the function of the statue was that is a representation of the sacrificial ceremonies according to the Egyptian  rites.  The bronze is now in the collection of the Torino Museum.
The second work consists of 2 parts with two separate titles. The first part is an essay on the deity Great Mother of Gods by Pignorius (first published in 1623). The second part titled ''Manus Aenae cecropii votum referentis, dilucidatio'' is written by Jacobus Philippus Tomasinus and contains a description of a small votive statue of a hand. At the end (pp. 63-96) a biography of Lorenzo Pignorius and a description of his museum and library and its contents (a.o. ancient coins and portrait bustes of classical figures) by Tomasini.

Good, clean copy with armorial bookplate " Liechtensteinanus".- (Dampstain on top of first title; small tear in  p. 46).
Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 119; Blackmer 1312; Gay 1567.

Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Egypt  Libraries & Collections  Numismatics  Sculpture 

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