Michelangelo LANCI
Lettre sur l'interprétation des hiéroglyphes égyptiens, adressée à M. Prisse d'Avennes[Letter on the Interpretation of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Addressed to Mr. Prisse d’Avennes]
Librairie scientifique française et orientale de A. Larue|Paris 1847|16.2 x 24.5 cm|Broché
First edition, illustrated at the end of the volume with four hors-texte plates printed on chamois paper.
Not recorded by Brunet, who lists the author’s principal works.
Scattered foxing, including to the boards.
The orientalist Michelangelo Lanci (1779–1867) produced a fascinating blend of genuine erudition and improbable conjectures, shaped by the pre-critical and broadly concordist mindset then prevailing without challenge in the learned circles of pontifical Rome (Lanci being a subject of the Pope).
This largely accounts for the profound neglect into which most of his works have since fallen.
Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879), who had worked with Champollion o
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