Lot 271
Kircher, Athanasius
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Turris Babel, sive archontologia. Amsterdam: ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1679, folio (384 x 234mm.), first edition, engraved additional title after Gerard Lairesse, 12 engraved plates, 4 double-page, 5 folding, numerous illustrations, 14 engraved, 6 of these full-page, plan of Ninevah with 30mm. tear to fold, two small tears to following plate, occasional browning, eighteenth century calf, spine gilt, later leather lettering-piece, some scuffing to extremities, head of spine chipped
Footnote
Note: First edition of a finely illustrated work, an important philological work, valuable for its study of the origin and priority of Indo-European languages. Caillet 5795.