Athanasii Kircheri è Societ. Jesu, Sphinx mystagoga, sive diatribe hieroglyphica, qua mumiae, ex Memphiticis pyramidum adytis erutae, et non ita pridem in Galliam transmissae, juxta veterum hieromystarum mentem, intentionemque, plena fide & exacta exhibetur interpretatio. Ad inclytos, abstrusiorumque cognitionum peritia instructissimos Galliae philologos directa / [Athanasius Kircher].

  • Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.
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MDCLXXVI.[1676]
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Amstelodami : Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, MDCLXXVI.[1676]

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8 unnumbered leaves, 72 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of engr. plates (2 double-page & 1 fldg) : engr. & woodcut illustrations, plates (3 folded) ; (folio)

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Signatures: *, **, A-K⁴ (K4 blank)
Includes index
Printer's device on the title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio
Some of the illustrations are engraved
Interpretation of the hieroglyphics traced on two "enveloppes de momies" brought from Egypt and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine.Another edition (with imprint : Romæ, ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year. cf. A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431.
Copy 1 Note: First leaf (half-title?) wanting.

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