Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Turris Babel pdf

Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Turris Babel

More Book Details

Description of the Book:

Added engraved t.p. by Johannes Munnickhuysen after Gérard de Lairesse. The 20 leaves of plates represent 8 double-page plates, tipped onto stubs at the centerfold, and 4 single-page plates. Some plates signed by Coenraet Decker as etcher, in part after Lieven Cruyl. Woodcut device on t.p. Tail-pieces, initials’, ‘Signatures: *-2*⁴ A-2F⁴’, ‘Includes index’, ‘Errata, last p’, ‘Copy 2 bound with: Sphinx mystagoga / Athanasius Kircher (Amsterdam : Janssonius van Waesberge, 1676)’, ‘Binding, c. 1: sprinkled calfskin, rebacked. Edges sprinkled red. Binding, c. 2: sprinkled calfskin, rebacked preserving original backstrip. Spine tooled in gilt, including author & titles. Edges sprinkled red & brown’, “Copy 1 has Theodore Besterman’s calligraphic label, signed P.S. (Percy John Smith?). Reader’s notes in pencil on back pastedown”, ‘Centered on front pastedown of c. 2 is engraving with arms of Pape van Glabbeeck, dated 1725

• Creator/s: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, Munnickhuysen, Johannes Willemsz., b. 1654 or 5, Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Decker, Coenraet, 1651-ca. 1685, Cruyl, Lieven de, ca. 1640-1720, Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes, fl. 1642-1681
• Date: 1679
• Book Topics/Themes: Babel, Tower of, Semitic languages, Hamitic languages, Indo-European languages

An excerpt captured from the PDF book