KIRCHER, Athanasius. Arithmologia sive de abditis numerorum mysteriis. Rome: Varesi, 1665.
KIRCHER, Athanasius. Arithmologia sive de abditis numerorum mysteriis. Rome: Varesi, 1665.

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KIRCHER, Athanasius. Arithmologia sive de abditis numerorum mysteriis. Rome: Varesi, 1665.

4o (230 x 165 mm). Engraved frontispiece, armorial woodcut on verso of title, woodcut illustration in text, 3 folding tables, one printed in red and black. (Some browning and staining, owner's name erased form title margin.) Contemporary limp vellum (light wear).

FIRST EDITION of the most comprehensive description of numerology of the 17th-century. Brunet III:666; Caillet II:5769; Graesse IV:21; Sommervogel IV, p. 1063; Wellcome III:395.

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