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Hieroglyphica, oder, Denkbilder der alten Völker : namentlich der Aegyptier, Chaldäer, Phönizier, Jüden, Griechen, Römer, u.s.w. : nebst einem umständlichen Berichte von dem Verfalle und der eingeschlichenen Verderbniss in den Gottesdiensten, durch verschiedene Jahrhunderte und endlich die Glaubensverbesserung, bis auf diese Zeit fortgesetzt, in LXIII Capiteln und so viel Kupfertafeln

by: Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708; Westerhoff, Arnoldus Henricus, -1737?; Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob, 1706-1757; Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780; Bos, Hendrik van den; Wandelaar, Jan, 1690-1759; Arkstée et Merkus

Publication date: 1744

Topics: Religions, Rites and ceremonies, Mythology

Publisher: Amsterdam : Bey Arkstee und Merkus

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: German

Binding: vellum. Author & title on spine label in gilt. Edges blue. Ribbon place marker

Printed label dated 1803 of Carl Gerds v. Ketelhodt, who acquired the vol. from Ludwig Friedrich, Fürst zu Schwarzburg Rud

Original Dutch ed. appeared 1735. See Landwehr

Etched frontispiece with title: Mr. Romein de Hooghe van de Hieroglypen of Merkbeelden der ouden &c. Engraved port. of author by Jacobus Houbraken after Hendrik van den Bos. Engraved t.p. vignette by Jan Wandelaar, dated 1734. Full-page coat of arms of Johann Hartewig Ernst von Bernstorf, to whom work is dedicated. De Hooghe's 63 numbered etchings face the first page of each chapter on the left of the opening. Head- and tail-pieces, initials

Signatures: [a]⁴ b-d⁴ A-3F⁴ 3G⁴(-3G4)

Includes index

Landwehr, J. Romeyn de Hooghe

Addeddate: 2016-10-14 18:31:58

Associated-names: Westerhoff, Arnoldus Henricus, -1737?; Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob, 1706-1757; Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780; Bos, Hendrik van den; Wandelaar, Jan, 1690-1759; Arkstée et Merkus