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BUONANNI, Filippo (1638-1725). Musaeum Kircherianum sive Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu iam pridem incoeptum. Rome: Georgius Plachius, 1709.
2° (370 x 233mm). Engraved portrait of the dedicatee, four section titles and 168 plates. (One plate, numbered LXV, with paper-fault tear in upper margin.) Contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with repeat pattern including elephant crest (foot of spine slightly chipped). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Nissen ZBI 2198.
2° (370 x 233mm). Engraved portrait of the dedicatee, four section titles and 168 plates. (One plate, numbered LXV, with paper-fault tear in upper margin.) Contemporary English mottled calf gilt, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with repeat pattern including elephant crest (foot of spine slightly chipped). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Nissen ZBI 2198.