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Lot 412

PIGNORIA (LORENZO)
Vetustissimae tabulae Aeneae, FIRST EDITION, JOHN EVELYN'S COPY

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PIGNORIA (LORENZO)

Vetustissimae tabulae Aeneae, FIRST EDITION, JOHN EVELYN'S COPY, with his note of purchase, engraved vignette of Venice on title, 5 woodcut plates, illustrations in the text, title with lower margin torn away and a few ink spots, seventeenth century calf, with Evelyn arms within 2 2-line fillet borders on sides, "JE" cipher in corners, spine tooled with "JE" cipher and Venetian lion device, g.e. [Blackmer 1311; Gay 1567], small 4to (216 x 157mm.), Venice, Giovanni Antonio Rampazetti, 1605

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JOHN EVELYN'S SPECIALLY BOUND COPY OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS ON EGYPTOLOGY. A study of the "Mensa Isiaca", a bronze table top discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Isis in Rome in 1527 by the scholar Lorenzo Pignoria (1571-1631) who believed that it related to Egyptian ceremonies of sacrifice. The volume was purchased by Evelyn in 1645 at Venice, during his extended Grand Tour.

Saleroom notices

This copy, in common with the Blackmer copy, does not have the large folding plate.

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