Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Ill. are woodcuts, comprising 22 half-page cuts of demons in books 1-2 (7 repeated once and 2 twice: 33 total); 2 half-page and 8 smaller cuts of sacraments, etc., within type-flower borders in book 3; publisher's device on t. p. and dedicatee's coat-of-arms on verso; floriated initials., Imperfect: Quire P (p. 225-240 wanting)., Imprint from colophon: Medolani, apud Bernardinum Lantonum, M. DC. VIII., Includes index., and Signatures: a⁸ A-P⁸ Q⁴(-Q4).
Publisher:
Apud haredes August. Tradati,
Subject (Topic):
Demonology--Early works to 1800., Exorcism--Early works to 1800., Occultism--Early works to 1800., and Wood-engraving, Italian--Specimens--17th century.
Hieroglyphica. Greek & Latin and Hori Apollinis Selecta hieroglyphica
Description:
"Aenigmata symposii poetae cum scholiis ...": pages 273-303., "Superiorum permissu"--Foot of t.p., Illustrated with 184 woodcuts., Index: p. 265-272., No. 1 of 2 titles bound together., Signatures: A-T⁸., Text in Greek and Latin; 1st five words of title transliterated from Greek., and Woodcuts of emblems intended to represent Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Subject (Name):
Zanetti, Luigi, active 1590-1616, printer.
Subject (Topic):
Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic--Early works to 1800., Emblems--Early works to 1800., and Symbolism--Early works to 1800.