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HORAPOLLO. De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo. Greek text and Latin translation. 195 text woodcuts. [20], 240, [4] pages. Small 8vo,

HORAPOLLO. De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo. Greek text and Latin translation. 195 text woodcuts. [20], 240, [4] pages. Small 8vo, 19th-century 1/4 tan sheep with red morocco lettering piece, joints cracked at top and bottom. Paris: Jacques Kerver, 1551

  • Notes: first kerver bi-lingual edition of a work on hieroglyphics ascribed to the 4th-century A.D. Greek grammarian Horapollo. "Kerver was the first to commission the emblematic woodcuts and to print the Horapollo text itself in the form of an emblem book" (Mortimer). Praz, page 374; Harvard/Mortimer-French 315.

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