HORAPOLLON

Un des plus célèbres recueils d'emblèmes du XVIième siècle, éd. Parisienne très rare. Ex libris F. Valter. Ref. Adams H-852. ""Horapollo, the traditional author of this work, was supposedly one of the last priests of the Ancient Egyptian religion in the fifth century C.E. His only extant work is this one, the Hieroglyphica, which claims to be an explanation of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Modern-day Egyptology recognizes that Book I in its entirety and approximately one third of Book II are based on real signs from hieroglyphic writing