Colophon of v. 3 dated 1655., Signatures: v. 3: A-4I⁴ 4K²., and Vol. 3 has sub-title: Theatrum hieroglyphicum, hoc est, noua & hucusque intentata obeliscorum coeterorumque hieroglyphicorum monumentorum, quae tùm Romae, tùm in Aegypto ac celebrioribus Europae musaeis adhuc supersunt, interpretatio iuxta sensum physicum, tropologicum, mysticum, historicum, politicum, magicum, medicum, mathematicum, cabalisticum, hermeticum, sophicum, theosophicum; ex omni orientalium doctrina & sapientia demonstrata.
Publisher:
Ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Egypt--History, and Egypt--Religion
Subject (Topic):
Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic and Hermetism--Early works to 1800
Added title-pages, engraved., Title vignette, with motto: Sapiens dominabitur astris., and Vol. II has special t.-p., engraved, only: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Mundi subterranei tomus II.us In V. libros digestus quibus mundi subterranei fructus exponuntur, et quidquid tandem rarum, insolitum, et portentosum in foecundo naturæ utero continetur, ante oculos ponitur curiosi lectoris.
Publisher:
apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & filios,
Subject (Topic):
Geology--Early works to 1800, Natural history--Pre-Linnean works, and Science--Early works to 1800
Bound with his Turris Babel ... Amstelodami, M DC LXXIX., Interpretation of the hieroglyphics traced on two "enveloppes de momies" brought from Egypt and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine. Another edition (with imprint : Romæ, ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year. cf. A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431., Printer's device on the title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio., and Signatures: +-++4A-K4 (K4 blank).
Imperfect: chipped. Accompanied by manuscript title page in Italian, "Nuovo Atlante sopra l'universo mondo ..." with imprint "Norinberga à spese dell' Autore stampato da Gio. Ernesto Adelbalner, 1714." and Title page for Johann Baptist Homann's Atlas novus terrarum orbis imperia.
Publisher:
[Johann Baptist Homann],
Subject (Name):
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724. Atlas novus terrarum orbis imperia.