Ars Magna Sciendi In Xii Libros Digesta Qua Nova Et Universali Methodo Per Artificiosum?solditem=true

by Athanasius Kircher

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Folio, 7 ff, 1-246 pp., 249-482 pp, 5 ff. With 2 engraved title pages, 1 engraved portrait of Emperor Leopold I, 1 full-page engraving of the “Arbor Philosophica” or Porphyrian tree, 2 engraved plates of volvelles to be mounted, 5 double-page folding tables, and numerous figures in text. Bound in calf over boards; some browning as usual and minor staining. Leaf *2 with Privilege in the first volume, often missing, is lacking in our copy. Generally very good.

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