Hermanni Witsii Aegyptiaca, et dekaphylon. Sive, De Aegyptiacorum Sacrorum Cum Hebraicis collatione Libri Tres. Et De Decem Tribubus Israelis Liber Singularis. Accessit Diatribe de Legione Fulminatrice Christianorum, Sub Imperatore Marco Aurelio Antonino. Editio secunda, ab Auctore emendata. Amstelodami: Gerardus Borstius, 1696.
Hermann Witsius' Aegyptiaca, and Dekaphylon. Or, Three Books on the Comparison of Egyptian Sacred Rites with the Hebrew. And a Separate Book on the Ten Tribes of Israel. A Discourse on the Thunderbolt-Wielding Legion of the Christians under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is also included. Second edition, revised by the author. Amsterdam: Gerardus Borstius, 1696.
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An attractive copy of Witsius’ influential and very interesting work which examines the parallels between ancient Egyptian religious practices and Hebrew rites. Includes a separate treatise on the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and the legendary Legio Fulminatrix, the Christian "Thundering Legion" under the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. A fascinating fusion of early modern theology, biblical exegesis, and proto-orientalist scholarship with a nicely engraved title page which exemplifies this fusion.
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Size: 155 x 202 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[*4, **4, ***1, A-Z4, 2A-2Z4, 3A-3P4, 3Q2, (1)]
Collates as complete, bound without a preliminary blank. Full vellum binding, title in a contemporary hand to spine. Vellum with some discolouration. No attached bookplates or ownership inscriptions, but with some pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and to the upper right of the main title and the following leaf (*3). Exceptionally bright and clean throughout - an ideal copy.
