Horou Apollonos neiloou Hieroglyphika = Ori Apollinis niliaci, De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo
This is a 1551 Paris edition of Horapollo's Hieroglyphika, a Greek treatise on Egyptian hieroglyphs with a Latin translation by Jean Mercier and Jean Cousin, printed by Jacques Kerver for scholars and humanist readers. Its small woodcuts, rendered in dense parallel hatching, each illustrate one hieroglyph's meaning with a natural or mythic scene such as a phoenix, a serpent, or a sea creature. A designer might borrow their compact vignette framing, cross-hatched tonal shading, and emblematic composition for symbolic motifs.
