China Monumentis, qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturae & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata

by Athanasius Kircher

$12,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonium á Waesberge & Elizium Weyerstraet, 1667. First edition. Folio 9 x 243 mm . *4 , **4 , 1-237, 238-248, index pp; *4 , **4 , A4 - Gg3, index Gg4 - Hh4; 8 ff. incl. the engraved title . Finely engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page. Twenty-three engraved plates one of which is folding , two double-page engraved maps, and fifty-nine engravings

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