KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Phonurgia, sive Conjugium Mechanico-physicum Artis et Naturae Paranympha Phonosophia Concinnatum . Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673. 2° (345 x 210 mm). Half-title, engraved additional title, engraved vignette on title and engraved portrait of Leopold I by G. A. Wolfgang, 2 engraved plates, 17 engraved text illustrations and numerous woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. (Some soiling heavier at beginning and end, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum (bowed, front joint splitting, head of spine chipped, soiled). Provenance : ink shelf mark on pastedown -- Bibliotheca Kircheriana (book label).
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Phonurgia, sive Conjugium Mechanico-physicum Artis et Naturae Paranympha Phonosophia Concinnatum . Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673. 2° (345 x 210 mm). Half-title, engraved additional title, engraved vignette on title and engraved portrait of Leopold I by G. A. Wolfgang, 2 engraved plates, 17 engraved text illustrations and numerous woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. (Some soiling heavier at beginning and end, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum (bowed, front joint splitting, head of spine chipped, soiled). Provenance : ink shelf mark on pastedown -- Bibliotheca Kircheriana (book label). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN BOOK DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO ACOUSTICS. Phonurgia nova is, in part, Kircher's reponse to Sir Samuel Morland (1625-95), a fellow of the Royal Society of London, who claimed to have invented the megaphone. Numerous testimonies from Kircher's admirers are appended to the work defending Kircher's claim as the inventor of the tuba stentorophonica , as Morland called it. As he did in the Musurgia , Kircher here describes and illustrates many bizarre and curious inventions like talking statues, an aeolian tuba and lyre, eavesdropping devices, and hordes of odd-shaped trumpets. Brunet III, 668; Caillet II, 5789 ('enrichi d'un très grand nombre de fig et dans le texte très curieuses et singulières'; Sommervogel IV, 1068.31; Graesse IV, 22; Merrill 25.
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Phonurgia, sive Conjugium Mechanico-physicum Artis et Naturae Paranympha Phonosophia Concinnatum . Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673. 2° (345 x 210 mm). Half-title, engraved additional title, engraved vignette on title and engraved portrait of Leopold I by G. A. Wolfgang, 2 engraved plates, 17 engraved text illustrations and numerous woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. (Some soiling heavier at beginning and end, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum (bowed, front joint splitting, head of spine chipped, soiled). Provenance : ink shelf mark on pastedown -- Bibliotheca Kircheriana (book label).
KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Phonurgia, sive Conjugium Mechanico-physicum Artis et Naturae Paranympha Phonosophia Concinnatum . Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673. 2° (345 x 210 mm). Half-title, engraved additional title, engraved vignette on title and engraved portrait of Leopold I by G. A. Wolfgang, 2 engraved plates, 17 engraved text illustrations and numerous woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. (Some soiling heavier at beginning and end, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum (bowed, front joint splitting, head of spine chipped, soiled). Provenance : ink shelf mark on pastedown -- Bibliotheca Kircheriana (book label). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN BOOK DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO ACOUSTICS. Phonurgia nova is, in part, Kircher's reponse to Sir Samuel Morland (1625-95), a fellow of the Royal Society of London, who claimed to have invented the megaphone. Numerous testimonies from Kircher's admirers are appended to the work defending Kircher's claim as the inventor of the tuba stentorophonica , as Morland called it. As he did in the Musurgia , Kircher here describes and illustrates many bizarre and curious inventions like talking statues, an aeolian tuba and lyre, eavesdropping devices, and hordes of odd-shaped trumpets. Brunet III, 668; Caillet II, 5789 ('enrichi d'un très grand nombre de fig et dans le texte très curieuses et singulières'; Sommervogel IV, 1068.31; Graesse IV, 22; Merrill 25.
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