Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Latium. Id est, Nova &
Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)
Latium. Id est, Nova & Parallela Latii tum Veteris tum Novi Descriptio. Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet, 1671.First edition, added engraved title by Romeyn de Hooghe, portrait of dedicatee Pope Clement X, twenty-seven plates extraneous to collation: fifteen folding and twelve full-paged, in addition to numerous engraved text illustrations, bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf boards, rebacked, browning to text leaves, printed in Latin in two columns, new endleaves and pastedowns, 15 x 9 1/2 in. Merrill 23 (with twenty-six engraved plates); Caillet 5777; Cicognara 3758; Olschki 17342.Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.
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Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)
Latium. Id est, Nova & Parallela Latii tum Veteris tum Novi Descriptio. Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet, 1671.First edition, added engraved title by Romeyn de Hooghe, portrait of dedicatee Pope Clement X, twenty-seven plates extraneous to collation: fifteen folding and twelve full-paged, in addition to numerous engraved text illustrations, bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf boards, rebacked, browning to text leaves, printed in Latin in two columns, new endleaves and pastedowns, 15 x 9 1/2 in. Merrill 23 (with twenty-six engraved plates); Caillet 5777; Cicognara 3758; Olschki 17342.Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.
