?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Toonneel van China.
Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, en de Wede. Wijlen Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1668.
First Dutch edition, illustrated with added engraved title, three folding maps, twenty-two plates (of which two are folding), and sixty text engravings, folding plates and maps laid down, some with stains, losses, and tears; leaves a bit frail, occasionally reinforced; bound in later half green morocco, front board and preliminaries detached; a good candidate for restoration, 13 3/4 x 9 in.
Cordier Sinica 26; De Backer & Sommervogel IV, 1064; Lust 39; Morrison II, 380.
