Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 461

Price Realized: $ 3,220
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS, S.J. Mundus Subterraneus. 17 plates, including 2 of unassembled volvelles; 6 maps; 7 letterpress tables; numerous illustrations and maps in text. [32], 346, [6]; [12], 487, [9] pages, including engraved additional title and 2 portraits in first volume, and engraved title in second. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 385x235 mm, old vellum, soiled and discolored, later leather lettering piece imperfect, front joint partly cracked; contents toned, minor marginal foxing and light dampstaining, wormholes in upper inner corner of Kircher portrait, old stamp on letterpress general title, maps of tides and the Mediterranean browned in Volume 1, small rust hole in G4 in Volume 2. Amsterdam: Apud Joannem Janssonium & Elizeum Weyerstraten, 1665
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