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KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Ars Magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta. Rome: L. Grignan for H. Scheus, 1646.
2 volumes in one, 2o (301 x 199 mm). Engraved title by Pierre Miotte of Burgundy and 38 engraved plates (including 2 engraved tables and one folding plate), (tiny hole in Qqqq2, affecting a few letters and marginal tear in Ddddd2.) Contemporary calf gilt, gilt coat-of-arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou fils and his first wife, Marie Picardet, on both covers, gilt monogram "IAM" repeated five times on spine. (Upper joint slightly cracked).
Provenance: Gilt coat-of-arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou fils (d. 1677), son of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, the celebrated 16th-century French bibliophile and his first wife Marie Picardet on both covers.
FIRST EDITION. "Kircher compared the action of light to that of a magnet, examined the phenomena of bioluminescence and mineral phosphorescence..." NLM/Krivatsy 6396; Wellcome III, p. 394; Norman 1216.
2 volumes in one, 2o (301 x 199 mm). Engraved title by Pierre Miotte of Burgundy and 38 engraved plates (including 2 engraved tables and one folding plate), (tiny hole in Qqqq2, affecting a few letters and marginal tear in Ddddd2.) Contemporary calf gilt, gilt coat-of-arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou fils and his first wife, Marie Picardet, on both covers, gilt monogram "IAM" repeated five times on spine. (Upper joint slightly cracked).
Provenance: Gilt coat-of-arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou fils (d. 1677), son of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, the celebrated 16th-century French bibliophile and his first wife Marie Picardet on both covers.
FIRST EDITION. "Kircher compared the action of light to that of a magnet, examined the phenomena of bioluminescence and mineral phosphorescence..." NLM/Krivatsy 6396; Wellcome III, p. 394; Norman 1216.