POINSINET DE SIVRY. - EO - Nouvelles recherches sur la science des médailles, inscriptions, et hiéroglyphes antiques. - 1778
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Louis Poinsinet de Sivry's EO - Nouvelles recherches sur la science des médailles, inscriptions, et hiéroglyphes antiques, published in 1778 by Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux in Maastricht, a first illustrated edition in French bound in half leather and comprising 220 pages.
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Louis POINSINET DE SIVRY.
New researches on the science of medals, inscriptions, and ancient hieroglyphs.
1778, at Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, Maastricht.
1 vol. in-4, bound VI-191 pages. Binding half calf tobacco brown of the 19th century, spine with 5 raised bands, ornamented with gilt fillets and the title, title-piece in red long-grain morocco.
5 plates paginated at the end of the work, including 1 folding, 6 plates in the text of which 3 are folding, Hebrew alphabet, Arabic alphabet of the priest Metoscite, Phoenician, Persian, Arabic, African, Turkish and Tatar alphabets published by Sigismond Fante and then by Geoffroy Tory in 1526.
The four last numbered leaves give the Hebrew, Arabic according to Father Metoscita, Phoenician, Persian and Arabic after Sigismond Fante, Chaldean after Fante and Geoffroy Tory. The plates, copper-engraved by Tardieu, depict the obverse and reverse of ancient medals, examples of inscriptions on the canopic vase, sarcophagi and statue. A work of numismatics and epigraphy by Poinsinet de Sivry (1733-1804), playwright, pupil of the Collège de la Marche, member of the Academy of Dijon and the Academy of Rome, specialist in Greco-Latin antiquity.
The first leaves are a little browned, interior fresh.
Precious original edition.
Louis POINSINET DE SIVRY.
New researches on the science of medals, inscriptions, and ancient hieroglyphs.
1778, at Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, Maastricht.
1 vol. in-4, bound VI-191 pages. Binding half calf tobacco brown of the 19th century, spine with 5 raised bands, ornamented with gilt fillets and the title, title-piece in red long-grain morocco.
5 plates paginated at the end of the work, including 1 folding, 6 plates in the text of which 3 are folding, Hebrew alphabet, Arabic alphabet of the priest Metoscite, Phoenician, Persian, Arabic, African, Turkish and Tatar alphabets published by Sigismond Fante and then by Geoffroy Tory in 1526.
The four last numbered leaves give the Hebrew, Arabic according to Father Metoscita, Phoenician, Persian and Arabic after Sigismond Fante, Chaldean after Fante and Geoffroy Tory. The plates, copper-engraved by Tardieu, depict the obverse and reverse of ancient medals, examples of inscriptions on the canopic vase, sarcophagi and statue. A work of numismatics and epigraphy by Poinsinet de Sivry (1733-1804), playwright, pupil of the Collège de la Marche, member of the Academy of Dijon and the Academy of Rome, specialist in Greco-Latin antiquity.
The first leaves are a little browned, interior fresh.
Precious original edition.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Egypt, History, Judaica, Linguistics
Book title
EO - Nouvelles recherches sur la science des médailles, inscriptions, et hiéroglyphes antiques.
Author/ Illustrator
POINSINET DE SIVRY.
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1778
Edition
1st Edition, Illustrated Edition
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Publisher
chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux
Binding/ Material
Half leather
Number of pages
220
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