POINSINET DE SIVRY

Louis POINSINET DE SIVRY. New researches on the science of medals, inscriptions, and ancient hieroglyphs. 1778, at Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, Maastricht. 1 vol. in-4, bound VI-191 pages. Binding half calf tobacco brown of the 19th century, spine with 5 raised bands, ornamented with gilt fillets and the title, title-piece in red long-grain morocco. 5 plates paginated at the end of the work, including 1 folding, 6 plates in the text of which 3 are folding, Hebrew alphabet, Arabic alphabet of the priest Metoscite, Phoenician, Persian, Arabic, African, Turkish and Tatar alphabets published by Sigismond Fante and then by Geoffroy Tory in 1526. The four last numbered leaves give the Hebrew, Arabic according to Father Metoscita, Phoenician, Persian and Arabic after Sigismond Fante, Chaldean after Fante and Geoffroy Tory. The plates, copper-engraved by Tardieu, depict the obverse and reverse of ancient medals, examples of inscriptions on the canopic vase, sarcophagi and statue. A work of numismatics and epigraphy by Poinsinet de Sivry (1733-1804), playwright, pupil of the Collège de la Marche, member of the Academy of Dijon and the Academy of Rome, specialist in Greco-Latin antiquity. The first leaves are a little browned, interior fresh. Precious original edition.

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