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BONANNI, Filippo. Museum Kircherianum sive Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in collegio Romano Societatis Jesu. Rome: Georgii Plachi, 1709.
2° (360 x 230mm).Title with woodcut device, 172 engraved plates, two folding (lacking portrait of Kircher). Contemporary vellum, morocco title label on spine (slightly rubbed) Provenance: Erasmus Philipps (18th century signature on spine). Lord Milford (stamp on front pastedown). Caillet 5784; Nissen ZBI 2198.
Merrill, Athanasius Kircher p.xxvii: 'Kircher, like his contemporary Henry Ashmole, was a collector of curiosities. He was in an excellent situation, at the hub of the Jesuit order, to gather relics, specimens, manuscripts, and any oddities or rareties his fellow Jesuits brought back to Rome from all parts of the world. After his death his museum began to decline, but Bonanni restored it in the first decade of the 18th century and published his catalogue.'
2° (360 x 230mm).Title with woodcut device, 172 engraved plates, two folding (lacking portrait of Kircher). Contemporary vellum, morocco title label on spine (slightly rubbed) Provenance: Erasmus Philipps (18th century signature on spine). Lord Milford (stamp on front pastedown). Caillet 5784; Nissen ZBI 2198.
Merrill, Athanasius Kircher p.xxvii: 'Kircher, like his contemporary Henry Ashmole, was a collector of curiosities. He was in an excellent situation, at the hub of the Jesuit order, to gather relics, specimens, manuscripts, and any oddities or rareties his fellow Jesuits brought back to Rome from all parts of the world. After his death his museum began to decline, but Bonanni restored it in the first decade of the 18th century and published his catalogue.'