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KESTLER, Joannes Stephanus. Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis, qua summa argumentorum multitudine & varietate Naturalium rerum scientia per experimenta ... quam ex vastis operibus Athanasii Kircheri. Amsterdam, ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1680.
2° (333 x 228mm.). Additional engraved title (with small tear repaired), woodcut vignette on printed title, engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text (some leaves slightly spotted). Contemporary vellum boards (soiled, tears in spine). Provenance: Abbot Hermann of Schefftlar Monastery (stamps on title); remains of library stamp on verso of printed title.
FIRST EDITION of this compendium of Kircher's works by one of his pupils. Garrison and Morton 580.
2° (333 x 228mm.). Additional engraved title (with small tear repaired), woodcut vignette on printed title, engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text (some leaves slightly spotted). Contemporary vellum boards (soiled, tears in spine). Provenance: Abbot Hermann of Schefftlar Monastery (stamps on title); remains of library stamp on verso of printed title.
FIRST EDITION of this compendium of Kircher's works by one of his pupils. Garrison and Morton 580.