Vnheard-of curiosities : concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians, the horoscope of the patriarkes, and the reading of the stars / written in French, by James Gaffarel ; and Englished by Edmund Chilmead ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaffarel, Jacques, 1601-1681.

Contributor:

Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Curiositez inouyes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Talismans--Early works to 1800.

Talismans.

Astrology--Early works to 1800.

Astrology.

Penn Provenance:

Woods, Ella U. (bookplate, Hollywood, Calif.)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 433, that is, 431 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Vnheard of curiosities

Unheard-of curiosities

Unheard of curiosities

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by G.D. [that is, Gartrude Dawson] for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1650.

Notes:

Translation into English of: Curiositez inouyes, sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans, horoscope des patriarches, et lecture des estoilles.

"The testimony that Leo Allatius gives, in his Apes urbanæ, concerning this book. ... This curious booke was printed thrice, within the space of sixe moneths: twice at Paris; and once, in some other city of France, not named in the impression. And it is suspected ... that the booke-sellers of Roüen, in hope of gaine, printed it more than once; though not without very great corruption, both of the sense, and stile."--p. [2], facing title page.

"Licenced, and printed according to order."--p. [434].

Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ B-2E⁸.

Errors in paging: numbers 256 and 257 omitted; p. 20, 101, 196, 206, 289, 310, 311, 326, 327, 328, 344, 360, 417 misnumbered 02, 111, 961, 226, 298, 210, 211, 226, 227, 228, 244, 260, 471.

The two plates, "the celestiall constellations, expressed by Hebrew characters" and "the celestial Hebrew alphabet," have explanation: The characters of these two tables are something different from those, which Bonaventure Hepburn, a Scot, hath cut in wood; and from those other also, which Duret hath set down, in his History of languages. For I have made choice to follow those, delivered by R. Chomer ... being one of the most learned amongst the Jewes, of our times. And yet, I confesse, some of the characters are not right, through the gravers fault: yet the difference is so little, as that it cannot be of any great consequence, or importance. ..."

Errata, p. [40], first count.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Title-page and page facing t.p. ruled in red.

First plate heavily wormed.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) G105

ESTC (RLIN) R202160

OCLC:

1016417