Search Results: lectures on the elements of hieroglyphics by spineto marquis

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006-07-25. Paperback. Used:Good.

New.

New.

London: C. J. G. & F. Rivington, 1829. ~Fairly recently rebound in half tan calf, marbled paper to boards. Low raised bands, gilt ruling, and red gilt label to spine. Blue and red headbands. All edges speckled brown, top edges darkened. 8vo (14.2 x 22.4cm). Hinges sound. Laid paper endpapers as well as original blank front endpage. Blank endpage(s) perhaps missing at rear. Minor foxing, largely to early and late pages. Scarcely noticeable small (2 cm) Maidstone Public Library blindstamp to title page. With 11 folding lithographs of hieroglyphs to rear, printed by Metcalfe of Cambridge. Thirteen lectures, originally given at Cambridge and the Royal Institution in London, by the Marquis di Spineto. Spineto, an Italian nobleman from an old Neapolitan family, arrived in England seeking refuge from 'the convulsions into which his native land was thrown by the wars of the French revolution' (Blackwood's 24, 1828, 313). He was a tutor in Italian at Cambridge University from (at least) 1808 to… Read More