Search Results: Authors starting with K from Liber Antiquus

Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678. SOLE EDITION. BOUND WITH THE SOLE EDITION OF KIRCHER'S "SPHINX MYSTAGOGA" (See below.). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in attractive 17th c. calfskin. A fine sammelband. The "Sphinx" exhibits the usual browning. The "Musaeum" is in very fine condition with just some closed tears (no loss whatsoever) to some of the folding plates, a small rust blemish on I1, small spot on H4, and light spotting to leaves D3-4. Complete with all of the plates, including the portrait of Kircher and the iconic view of his museum. [Bound with] Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Sphinx Mystagoga, sive, Diatribe hieroglyphica qua mumiae, ex Mempheticis pyramidum adytis erutae & non ita pridem in Galliam transmissae, iuxta veterum hieromystarum mentem, intentionemque, plena fide & exacta exhibetur interpretatio. Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1676 I. Kircher's "Most Celebrated Museum of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus" The only description of Kircher's museum in the Collegio Romano as it… Read More

Amsterdam: Apud Jacobum a Meurs, in fossa vulgo de Keyfersgracht, 1667. FIRST MEURSIUS EDITION (a counterfeit of the Jannson-Weyerstraet edition of the same year). Hardcover. Fine. Complete with the engraved title page, a full-paged portrait of Kircher, 2 large folding engraved maps of China, 59 text engravings, and 23 full-paged engravings (one of which is a large folding reproduction of the "Nestorian Stele"), including some drawn by the artist Willem van der Laegh. This is a fine copy, bound in contemporary stiff vellum (lightly soiled.) The text and plates are crisp and mostly bright, with some light foxing or browning to scattered leaves, and a few clean tears, without loss (lvs. K2, L4, S1); natural paper irregularities to the margins of 2 plates (at p. 113 and p. 155), not affecting the image. This copy features a variant of the engraved title that states that this edition was printed at Amsterdam in 1667 "Vidua Elizei Weyerstraet", that is, by Sara Weyerstraet, widow of one of the original… Read More