This is the rating and price for 2 O (369 X 243 Mm). Engraved Additional Title By Munnichuysen After Laires, Engraved Double-Page Map And 11 Engraved Plates (Some By Decker After Cruyl), Including 7 Folding, Engravings And Woodcuts In Text, 1679.0

Description : 2 o (369 x 243 mm). Engraved additional title by Munnichuysen after Laires, engraved double-page map and 11 engraved plates (some by Decker after Cruyl), including 7 folding, engravings and woodcuts in text, some full-page. (Some light browning and staining, a few short tears to folding plates.) Contemporary vellum (sprung along fore-edge). Provenance : James Allardes (bookplate), Caroli Beniamin Lengnich (bookplate), Henry Thomas Ellacombe (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Kircher's last book to be published during his lifetime. Turris Babel is Kircher's attempt to reconstruct the specifics surrounding the famous biblical story, recounted in Genesis 10-11 (Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven...), of Nimrod's attempt to build a tower that reached the heavens. Brunet III:668, Caillet 5795. Sommervogel IV, p. 1069. [ Bound with: ] KIRCHER, Athanasius. Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum, cujus magnum antiquarae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem. Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1679. 2 o. Engraved title, engraved portrait and 17 engraved plates, including 7 folding plates and 2 double-page, 4 engraved text illustrations and woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. FIRST EDITION. A detailed catalogue of Kircher's museum in the Collegio Romano where he showed his collection of Chinese and Egyptian antiquities, various objects and rarities of art and nature. Kircher also demonstrated a number of machines, magnetic devices and a magnetic clock in his Wunderkammer. Unfortunately relics of Kircher's museum were divided in 1913 between the Museo Nazionale Romano, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant' Angelo, and Museo Paleoetnografico del Collegio Romano. Brunet III:669, Caillet 5784, Sommervogel IV, p. 1076. [ Bound with: ] KIRCHER, Athanasius and Joannes Stephanus KESTLERUS. Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis. Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1680. 2 o. Engraved title and numerous woodcut and engraved illustrations in text. FIRST EDITION. Contains a description of Kircher's experiments in optics, acoustics, alchemy, hydraulics, flying machines, magic laterns, etc. Brunet III:669, Caillet 5796, Merrill 29, Sommervogel IV, p. 1076, Wellcome III:396.
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