Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)
Latium. Id est, Nova & Parallela Latii tum Veteris tum Novi Descriptio.

Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet, 1671.

First edition, added engraved title by Romeyn de Hooghe, portrait of dedicatee Pope Clement X, twenty-seven plates extraneous to collation: fifteen folding and twelve full-paged, in addition to numerous engraved text illustrations, bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf boards, rebacked, browning to text leaves, printed in Latin in two columns, new endleaves and pastedowns, 15 x 9 1/2 in.

Merrill 23 (with twenty-six engraved plates); Caillet 5777; Cicognara 3758; Olschki 17342.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.