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Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Latium : id est, nova & parallela Latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio : qua quaecunque vel natura, vel veterum Romanorum ingenium admiranda effecit, geographico-historico-physico ratiocinio, juxta rerum gestarum, temporumque seriem exponitur & enucleatur

by: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680; Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664, printer; Falconer, Thomas, 1738-1792, former owner; Haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet, printer

Publication date: 1671

Topics: Clement X, Pope, 1590-1676, Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy), Architecture, Domestic

Publisher: Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: Latin

Added, engraved title page

Engraved illustrations

Dedicated to Pope Clement X; dedication preceded by an engraved portrait of the Pope

"Villae celeberrimae ab Adriano Caesare ... extructae vera ... ichnographia ab Pyrrho Ligorio olim, postea a Francisco Contini recognita et descripta ..." (2 double plates, followed by "Totius plani villae Adrianeae declaratio generalis" [6] p.) inserted between p. 144-145

Includes index

BM (compact ed.)

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy DG52.K58 FOLIO bound in early vellum panelled in blind with blocked central lozenges. Initials "I.F." within each lozenge. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Falconer on front pastedown, with bookplate of the BPL Codman Fund. Pencil note on the front flyleaf recto names "Consul Smith" as a previous owner. Another note reads, "Signed Dutch trade binding."