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Unheard-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, mr. of arts, and chaplaine of Christ-Church Oxon.

Accession number
PML 151468
Creator
Gaffarel, Jacques, 1601-1681.
Published
London : Printed by G.D. [i.e., Gartrude Dawson] for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard., 1650.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
"Licenced, and printed according to order."--p. [434].
Errors in paging: numbers 256 and 257 omitted; p. 20, 101, 145, 148, 149, 153, 156, 157, 160, 196, 206, 289, 310, 311, 326, 327, 328, 344, 360, 417 misnumbered 02, 111, 129, 132, 133, 137, 40, 141, 144, 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.
"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.
Description
[40], 433 [i.e., 431], [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary calf.
Classification
Department