The text, attributed to Paolo Paciaudi (cf. Brooks & Melzi), describes the symbolic meaning of the monument erected on the occasion of the visit of Joseph II in Parma and of the announcement of marriage of Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma.
Description:
Engraved title vignette depicting the two sides of a portrait medallion, commemorating the visit of Joseph II. in Parma, with caption: "Adventvs Avg. Felicissimvs Parm. Iosephvs II. Roman. Imp. CICICCCLXVIIII.", engraved by Benigno Bossi after Petitot. Large head-piece on p. [V], engraved by Tommaso Baratti after Petitot, and large tail-piece on p. XI, engraved by Antonio Baratti after Petitot. Two engraved pictorial initials., Final p. blank., Full-page ill. of the monument, with scale, engraved by Simon François Ravenet (the son) after Petitot., Text in French and Italian in parallel columns, t.p. and inscriptions in Latin., The text, attributed to Paolo Paciaudi (cf. Brooks & Melzi), describes the symbolic meaning of the monument erected on the occasion of the visit of Joseph II in Parma and of the announcement of marriage of Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma to Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria. The monument was designed by the French architect Edmond Alexandre Petitot., and Year in title printed as CICICCCLXVIII, the thrid and fifth Cs reversed.
Publisher:
Giambattista Bodoni,
Subject (Name):
Baratti, Antonio, 1724-1787., Baratti, Tommaso, fl. 1769., Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813, printer., Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1800?, Ferdinand,--Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma,--1751-1802--Marriage., Joseph--II,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1741-1790--Monuments., Maria Amalia,--Archduchess of Austria, consort of Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma,--1746-1804--Marriage., Petitot, E. A. (Edmond Alexandre), 1727-1801., and Ravenet, Simon François, 1748-ca. 1814.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments--Italy--Parma--Early works to 1800. and Royal visitors--Italy--Parma--Early works to 1800.
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
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).