KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus. Amsterdam: J. Jansson & E. Weyerstrat, 1665. 2 volumes in one, 2o (372 x 230 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved titles, engraved portraits of the author and Pope Alexander VII, 19 engraved plates. (including 9 double page and 3 folding, 6 inserted double-page or folding letterpress tables, and numerous engraved or woodcut illustrations in text, including 3 volvelles (dampstained throughout). Later mustard reverse calf, mustard boards (upper joints splitting, losses to spine head, extremities worn). Provenance: (small blue stamp on frontispiece; inscription dated 1709 on first title page). FIRST EDITION of Kircher's influential encyclopedic survey of the subterranean or "hidden" world, the first serious effort to describe the physical make-up of the world. Caillet 5783; Ferguson I, p.467; Graesse IV:21; Nissen ZBI 2196; Sabin 37967; Wellcome III, p. 395.

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KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-1680). Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus. Amsterdam: J. Jansson & E. Weyerstrat, 1665. 2 volumes in one, 2o (372 x 230 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved titles, engraved portraits of the author and Pope Alexander VII, 19 engraved plates. (including 9 double page and 3 folding, 6 inserted double-page or folding letterpress tables, and numerous engraved or woodcut illustrations in text, including 3 volvelles (dampstained throughout). Later mustard reverse calf, mustard boards (upper joints splitting, losses to spine head, extremities worn). Provenance: (small blue stamp on frontispiece; inscription dated 1709 on first title page). FIRST EDITION of Kircher's influential encyclopedic survey of the subterranean or "hidden" world, the first serious effort to describe the physical make-up of the world. Caillet 5783; Ferguson I, p.467; Graesse IV:21; Nissen ZBI 2196; Sabin 37967; Wellcome III, p. 395.

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