Musaeum Kircherianum sive Musaeum A P Athanasio Kirchero.... Rome: Giorgio Placho, 1709. Folio (360 x 230 mm). Engraved portrait and 172 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Some losses to vellum, dampstaining to top margins. FIRST EDITION of the first detailed catalogue of the "Wunderkammer" of Athanasius Kircher in the Collegio Romano. The collection included natural history specimens, ethnographic curiosa and archeological artifacts. Nissen ZBI 2198; Rossetti 1377. See lot 144.
Musaeum Kircherianum sive Musaeum A P Athanasio Kirchero.... Rome: Giorgio Placho, 1709. Folio (360 x 230 mm). Engraved portrait and 172 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Some losses to vellum, dampstaining to top margins. FIRST EDITION of the first detailed catalogue of the "Wunderkammer" of Athanasius Kircher in the Collegio Romano. The collection included natural history specimens, ethnographic curiosa and archeological artifacts. Nissen ZBI 2198; Rossetti 1377. See lot 144.
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