Arcana arcanissima, hoc est, Hieroglyphica aegyptio-graeca :
vulgo necdum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium, & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex vno Aegyptiorum artificio, quod aureũ animi et corporis medicamentum peregit, deductam, vnde tot poëtarum allegoriae, scriptorum narrationes fabulosae et per totam encyclopaediam errores sparsi clarissima veritatis luce manifestantur, suaeq[ue] tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris exposita /
authore Michaele Maiero ...

Description

Main Author

Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

[S.l. : s.n., 1614]

Subjects

Alchemy > Alchemy / Early works to 1800.

Note

Leaf Bb3 missigned Aa3.
Engraved t.p. Page [3] (1st sequence) has engraved architectural border within which various dedications occur in other copies; in the present copy this space is blank, apart from a faint oval guideline.
Published in 1614 at Oppenheim and also at London (T. Creede). Reissued in 1625 at London with cancel letterpress t.p., title: De hieroglyphicis aegyptiorvm libri sex (Prostat apud Societatem Londinensem). See Yale Alchemy, 84.

Physical Description

[12], 285, [15] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)

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