Musaeum Kircherianum, sive, Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu jam pridem incoeptum nuper restitutum, auctum, descriptum, & iconibus illustratum : excellentissimo Domino Francisco Mariae Ruspolo antiquae urbis Agyllinae Principi
Filippo Buonanni, Athanasius Kircher, Giorgio Placho (Printer), Francesco Maria Ruspoli (Dedicatee), Collegio romano Museo
Print Book, Latin, MDCCIX [1709]
Typis Georgii Plachi caelaturam profitentis, & characterum fusoriam propè S. Marcum, Romae, MDCCIX [1709]
Copper engravings
[12], 522 [i.e. 399], [9] p., [172] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (engravings), port. ; 37 cm (fol.)
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Classis prima. Continens idola & instrumenta ad sacrificia ethnicorum spectantia
Classis secunda. Continens tabellas votivas & anathematha
Classis tertia. Continens sepulchra & inscriptiones sepulchrales
Classis quarta. Continens lucernas sepulchrales
Classis quinta. Fragmenta eruditae antiquitatis
Classis sexta. Continens lapides, fossilia, aliasqueglebas, à natura effigie aliqua donatas
Classis septima. Apparatum habet rerum pergrinarum, ex variis orbis plagis collectum
Classis octava. Exponuntur plantae marinae, frutices, & animalia tum mariana, tum terrestria
Classis nona. Instrumenta mathematica
Classis decima. Indicantur tabulae pictae, signa marmorea, & numismata diversi generis
Classis undecima. Continet observationes rerum minimarum ope microscopii factas
Classis duodecima. Continens animalia testacea
Pars secunda. Describuntur testacea in parte quarta delineata
Pars tertia. Continent varia problemata menti proposita in observatione testaceorum
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Signatures: *⁶ A-G⁴ H² I-N⁴ O⁶ P-T⁴ V⁶ X-2A⁴ 2B-2C⁶ 2D-2G⁴ 2H⁶ 2I-2Z⁴ 3A⁶ 3B⁴
Pagination sequence interrupted by numbered leaves of plates. Compete sequences: [12], 1-39, [1] p., 40-60 leaves, 61-79, [1] p., 80-83 leaves, 84-115 p., 116-127 leaves, 128-146, [1] p., 147-160 leaves, 161-183, [1] p., 184-197.2 leaves, 198-224, [1] p., 225-226 leaves, 225-247, [1] p., 248-252 leaves, 264-283 p., 284-299 leaves (leaf "230" inserted before 299), 302-312, [1] p., 313-316 leaves, 316-319 p., 320-321 leaves, 322-361 p., 362-387 leaves, leaf 391, 392-411 p., leaf 412, 412-522, [9] p., [48] leaves
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Portrait engraved by Arnold van Westerhout after Antonio David
Includes indexes