KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus ... edito tertia . Amsterdam: Joannes Jansson Waesberge & filos, 1678. 2 volumes in one, 2 (379 x 242mm). Engraved additional title to volume I by T. Matham after J. P. Schor, engraved title to vol. II by A. Siourtsma after C. van de Passe, 12 engraved plates 7 of which are folding, 6 double-page sheets containing 8 engraved maps, and 2 maps on single sheets. Engraved and woodcut illustrations in text, several full page. 5 letterpress tables, 3 double-page. (Lacking the engraved portraits of Kircher and Pope Alexander VII, pp. 165-67 of vol. I without volvelles, most plates and maps on modern guards, some quires wholly browned or browned at page edges, dampstain to some lower margins, a few text leaves rehinged, one double-page table detached.) Contemporary vellum, sides with central arabesque in blind, brown morocco lettering-piece (bowed, ties lacking). Provenance : Fox 1773 (inscription on front pastedown). Third edition of Kircher's highly popular encyclopedia of the subterranean world, first published by Jansson and Elizeus Weyerstraten in 1665. The engraved title to volume II is followed by a blank rather than a printed title. Brunet III, 667; Graesse IV, p. 21. Cf. Norman 1218 for the first edition.
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus ... edito tertia . Amsterdam: Joannes Jansson Waesberge & filos, 1678. 2 volumes in one, 2 (379 x 242mm). Engraved additional title to volume I by T. Matham after J. P. Schor, engraved title to vol. II by A. Siourtsma after C. van de Passe, 12 engraved plates 7 of which are folding, 6 double-page sheets containing 8 engraved maps, and 2 maps on single sheets. Engraved and woodcut illustrations in text, several full page. 5 letterpress tables, 3 double-page. (Lacking the engraved portraits of Kircher and Pope Alexander VII, pp. 165-67 of vol. I without volvelles, most plates and maps on modern guards, some quires wholly browned or browned at page edges, dampstain to some lower margins, a few text leaves rehinged, one double-page table detached.) Contemporary vellum, sides with central arabesque in blind, brown morocco lettering-piece (bowed, ties lacking). Provenance : Fox 1773 (inscription on front pastedown). Third edition of Kircher's highly popular encyclopedia of the subterranean world, first published by Jansson and Elizeus Weyerstraten in 1665. The engraved title to volume II is followed by a blank rather than a printed title. Brunet III, 667; Graesse IV, p. 21. Cf. Norman 1218 for the first edition.
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