Catalogue 02-2019

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Item #002936 Arithmologia, sive de abditis numerorum mysteriis qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica...

Arithmologia, sive de abditis numerorum mysteriis qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditae... proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur.

Rome: Varese, 1665. 4to (226 x 168 mm). [16], 301, [11] pp., including final blank, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 folding letterpress tables (one in red and black), full-page woodcut arms of dedicatee on verso of title-page, woodcut initials, tailpieces and illustrations. Two neat composite eclectic zodiacs in contemporary ink are..... More

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Item #003130 China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis...

China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis.

Amsterdam: Joan Janssonius van Waesberghe, 1667. Folio (384 x 250 mm). [14], 237, [11] pp. Including engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page, letterpress title-page with printer's woodcut vignette, engraved portrait of the author, 2 double-page and folding maps (of China and South-East-Asia), 23 engraved plates (2 folding), 61 engraved vignettes, several engraved..... More

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Item #003102 Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus . . . Two parts in one volume....

The first effort to describe the earth from a physical standpoint

Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus . . . Two parts in one volume.

Amsterdam: Janssonius-Waesberge, 1665. 1664-1665. Folio (393 x 238 mm). [28], 346, [6]; [12], 487 [1], [10] pp., including allegorical additional title to each part (both dated 1664), engraved portrait of Kircher and dedicatee Pope Alexander VII, engraved device on title of part 1, 21 (12 double-page, one folding) engraved maps..... More

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Item #001966 Physiologia Experimentalis, qua Summa Argumentorum Multitudine & Varietate...

Physiologia Experimentalis, qua Summa Argumentorum Multitudine & Varietate Naturalium rerum scientia per experimenta Physica, Mathematica, Medica, Chymica, Musica, Magnetica, Mechanica comprobatur atque stabilitur. Extraxit, &... redegit... Joannes Stephanus Kestlerus.

Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberge, 1680. Folio (373x247 mm). [8], 248, [8] pp., including additional engraved allegorical title, seven copper engravings and numerous woodcuts within text. 19th-c three-quarter vellum, spine with printed title (extremities and boards somewhat rubbed). Minor spotting and even light browning throughout. Provenance: Marcel Bekus (ex-libris to front paste-down and..... More

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Item #003013 Primitiae gnomonicae catoptricae, hoc est horologiographiae novae specularis, in qua...

Primitiae gnomonicae catoptricae, hoc est horologiographiae novae specularis, in qua . . . demonstratur horologiorum per reflexi luminis radium construendorum methodus . .

Avignon: Jean Piot, 1635. 4to (224 x 171 mm). [12], 228, [16] pp., including engraved additional title, woodcut initials and headpieces, several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (7 full page), index, errata and privilege leaf bound at end. Signatures: π6 A-2G4 2H2. Bound in 20th-century vellum, spine with gilt..... More

Price: 6,500 €

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Item #002115 Iter extaticum coeleste. Athanasius KIRCHER, Gaspar Schott

Iter extaticum coeleste.

Würzburg: heirs of J.A. & Wolfgang Endter, 1660. Iter extaticum coeleste, Quo Mundi opificium, id est, Coelestis Expansi, siderumq[ue] tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumq[ue] compositio & structura, ab infimo Telluris globo, usq[ue] ad ultima Mundi confinia, per ficti raptus integumentum explorata, novâ hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem, interlocutoribus..... More

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