Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2621BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Kircher, Athanasius (1645-1723) Mundus Subterraneus. Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.
Folio in two volumes, third edition, engraved title in each, portrait in volume one, illustrated with twenty-one plates, thirteen folding, eight full-page, with two unconstructed volvelles, two full-page and two double-page typographical tables extraneous to the collation; bound in full parchment, damaged, with three large holes in the parchment, singed around the edges.
Estimate $3,000-5,000