"SCHMIDT, (FREDERIC SAMUEL de).Livre Rare Book
Collection of texts on early archaeology and philology.
1760ABC_47143Various places 1760. 4to. various publishers Mid-19th-century half red goatskin morocco sewn on 4 supports gold-tooled spine blind-tooled fillets with the cypher monogram of a French count in compartments 1 3 & 5 crowned script L and reversed L like the Bourbon royal cypher but with a counts crown instead of a kings crown and labbéBarthelemy and Dissertations1760-1792 in mid-19th-century roman capitals across compartments 2 & 4 agathe chemical-marbled sides black on red Spanish-marbled endpapers light brown spots with white and dark brown veins red sprinkled edges green ribbon marker. 10 works in 1 volume. 16; 43 1 blank; 24; 28 XIV; 2 44; 12; 8; 12; 1 1 blank 45 1 blank; 9 1 blank pp. Very important collection of essays and other texts marking the establishment of archaeology and philology as serious scientific disciplines. While still drawing from the experience and works of "antiquarians" who studied antiquity in a more amateurish and occasional way the authors of the present works attempted to work more methodically towards greater discoveries. This renewed interest in antiquity and the move to studying it in a more scientific way came as a result of several major 18th-century discoveries like the Herculaneum 1709 Pompeii 1748 and the Rosetta Stone 1799 see ad 4.Naturally Egyptology is also a well-represented subject in the present work. It includes a fabulous depiction and detailed description and explanation of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina ad 5 a floor mosaic depicting the flow of the river Nile from the Blue Nile in Ethiopia to the Mediterranean Sea. Additionally the study of hieroglyphs and differing views on deciphering the Ancient Egyptian scripts can be found in ads 3 and 4.Philology in this case the study of language in written historical sources not in oral ones is a returning subject in many of the essays in the present work including the Christie's auction catalogue since it comprises a list of written historical sources in the form of oriental especially Ethiopic manuscripts collected by James Bruce. Four works by the abbot and scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy 1716-1795 are also included. He was the first to decipher two alphabets of ancient extinct languages: Palmyrene and Phoenician. His works also include descriptions depictions and explanations of Phoenician medals and the collection of texts in the present volume ends with an engraved example of the Phoenician alphabet.The monogram on the binding based on Louis XIVs but with a counts crown instead of the royal crown suggests that the collection was bound for a Bourbon Count Louis in the mid-19th century. Olivier Reliures armoriées Françaises records many examples with the royal crown but only one with a counts crown plate 1095 no. 3 and it does not resemble the present one and is much older: Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully 1725-1779. Boards slightly worn mainly at the extremities occasional foxing and browning mainly to ad 3 and 4 fore-edge of ad 1 and foot of ad 3 and 4 slightly frayed upper headband broken but complete. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: WorldCat 5 copies. Ad 2: VD18 15073807; WorldCat 15 copies. Ad 3: WorldCat 6 entries multiple copies. Ad 4: WorldCat 3 entries multiple copies. Ad 5: WorldCat 2 entries multiple copies. Ad 6: WorldCat 8 copies. Ad 7: WorldCat 3 copies. Ad 8: WorldCat 1 copy. Ad 9: WorldCat 3 entries multiple copies. Ad 10: WorldCat 3 copies. hardcover
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