Author: CUPER, Gisbert.
Title: Harpocrates, sive Explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae; quae in figuram Harpocratis formata representat solem. Ejusdem monumenta antiqua inedita. Accedit S. Le Moine epistola de Melanophoris.
Description: Utrecht, G. Broedelet, 1694 (reissue of the edition 1687). 4to. [vi]294, (14) pp. With engraved frontispiece by J. vanden Avele, 42 text figs. & 6 folding plates. Laced vellum with morocco title-piece, flat spine. (binding a bit soiled, upper margin of one leaf damaged, tear in one plate). Good copy with ample margins. ¶ Gijsbert Cuper (1644-1716) was a first-rate archaeologist & Dutch politician. Although he corresponded with all important scientists of his time, his publications are only few. He even was presented books by the pope, and contemporaries therefore judged him arrogant. He was rector of the Atheneum illustre at Deventer. The first work deals with the hellenistic god Harpocrates "son of Isis", created after the Egyptian god Horus, much worshipped together with Osiris & Isis in a mystery cult.

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