LICETI, Fortunio (1577-1657). Hieroglyphia sive Antiqua schemata gemmarum anularium. Padua: Sebastiano Sardi, 1653. 2° (324 x 211mm). Printer's device, full-page portrait, 66 vignettes, and one illustration, all engraved. (Title soiled, top corners waterstained at start, some browning, a few leaves with ink spots.) 20th-century polished calf. PROVENANCE: Bibliothece Regina Cristine (inscription dated 1747).
FIRST EDITION of Liceti's huge emblem book covering all aspects of contemporary human knowledge. Landwehr Romanic 486.
LICETI, Fortunio (1577-1657). Hieroglyphia sive Antiqua schemata gemmarum anularium. Padua: Sebastiano Sardi, 1653. 2° (324 x 211mm). Printer's device, full-page portrait, 66 vignettes, and one illustration, all engraved. (Title soiled, top corners waterstained at start, some browning, a few leaves with ink spots.) 20th-century polished calf. PROVENANCE: Bibliothece Regina Cristine (inscription dated 1747).
FIRST EDITION of Liceti's huge emblem book covering all aspects of contemporary human knowledge. Landwehr Romanic 486.
