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10164 KIRCHER (Athanagius, s.j., Collegii Gregoriani) ARS MAGNA SCIENDI, qua nova et 

 universal! Methodo per Artificiosum Combinationum Con tex turn de OMNI RE proposita plurimis 

 et prppe Infinitis Rationibus disputari, omniumque Summaria quredam Cognitio comparari potest ; 

 editio princeps; with 2 engraved titles, plates and woodcuts, 2 vols. large folio in 1, old parch- 

 ment (somewhat foxed, but sound copy) ; RARE, 1. 5s Amstelodami, 1659 



10165 MUNDUS SUBTERRANEUS, quo Divinum Subterrestris Mundi Qpificium, niira 



Ergasteriorum Naturre in eo Distributio, Verbo xavrAftopfov Protei Regnum, editio princeps ; 

 with engraved titles, and numerous fine copperplates and woodcuts, 2 vols. large folio in 1, old calf, 

 rebacked (RARE), 1. 10s ibidem, 1665 



10166 - - EDITIO TERTIA [ET OPTIMA], recognita, et prioribus eraendatior : turn ab Auctore Roma 

 submissis variis Observationibus novisque Figuris auctior ; with engraved titles, fine portrait (of ten 

 wanting), numerous plates and woodcuts, 2 vols. large folio in 1, sound and tall copy in old calf, 

 rebacked (RARE), 2. 5s ibidem, 1678 



10167 ANOTHER COPY, 2 \o\s.oldwhitevellum (withouttheportrait,andsomewhatbrowned),\. 15s 



Including geology, mineralogy, mining, and metallurgy. 



'Get ouvrage contient la relation d'un grand nombre de faits fabuleux ou controuves, tels que des recits snr les geants, 

 les dragons et autres animaux chimeriques. L'auteur y annonce aussi qu'il possede le secret de faire revivre dans leurs 

 forme primitive les cendres d'uneplante, resultat qu'il pouvait sembler obtenir an moyendes miroirs convenablement dis- 

 poses. Le chapitre concernant la transmutation des metaux a ete reimprime dans la Jiibliotheca Chimica de Manget.' 

 Biogr. Gen. 



' Dans son Mundus subterranens il fait une rude guerre aux alchimistes, ce qui lui attira de nombreux ennemis parmi les 

 adept es. ' Hoefe.r. 



10168 MUSURGIA UNIVERSALIS, sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni qua Universa Sonorum 



Doctrina et Philosophia, Musicseque tarn Theories, quam Practicoe Seientia, sumnia Varietate 

 traditur, admirandse Consoni et Dissoni in Mundo, adeoque Universk Natura Vires Effectusque, 

 <uti nova, ita peregrina Variorum Speciminum Exhibitione ad singulares Usus . . . aperiuntur et 

 demonstrantur, editio princeps; with engraved title, fine portrait of Leopold Wilhelm., Archduke 

 of Austria, and 23 fine copperplates, besides numerous woodcuts, diagrams, and music, 2 vols. 

 folio, contemporary Italian vellum (somewhat browned as usual, but a VERY SOUND COPY) ; VERY 

 RARE, 3. 15s Eomcc, 1650 



FIRST AND BEST EDITION .of perhaps the rarest of Father Kircher's innumerable writings, and much valued for con- 

 taining full descriptions and illustrations of contemporary musical instruments, which include also the first description 

 of the aolian harp. It contains moreover a copious account of the theory of sound and its applications. 



' Le 5 e livre sst un traite de composition extrait des meilleurs ouvrages stir cette matiere qui exictaient au temps ou 

 Kircher ecrivait. II y rapporte quelques morceaux d'artistes celebres de cette epoque, qu'on ne trouve point ailleurs . . . 

 Kircher traite aussi de 1'echo, de ses causes, de la construction de quelques instruments mecaniques, et de certains 

 automates chantants ou jouant des instruments'. Fetis. 



10169 : PHYSIOLOGIA KIRCHERIANA EXPERIMENTALIS, qua summa Argumentorum Multi- 



tudine et Varietate Naturalium Rerum Seientia per Experimenta Physica, Mathematica, Medica, 

 Chymica, Musica, Magnetica, Mechanica comprobatur atque stabilitur, ouam ex vastis Operibus 

 P. ATHANASII KIRCHERI extraxit, et in hunc Ordinem per Classes redegit JOANNES STEPHANUS 

 KESTLERUS ; with engraved title (soiled and slightly defective), and numerous engravings on 

 copper and wood, roy. folio, unbound (RARE), 1. Is ' Amstelodami, 1680 



10170 : The VULCANO'S: or, Burning and Fire-vomiting Mountains Famous in the World, with 



their Remarkables, collected for the most part out of KIRCHER'S SUBTERRANEOUS WORLD, 

 and expos 'd to more general view in English, upon the late Wonderful and Prodigious 

 ERUPTIONS of yETNA, with fine engraved folding front, by W. Sherwin (front, slightly mended] : 

 A TRUE and EXACT RELATION of the late PRODIGIOUS EARTHQUAKE and ERUPTION of MOUNT 

 ^ETNA, or Monte-Gibello ; as it came in a Letter written to His Majesty from Naples by the 

 Right Hon. the EARLE OF WINCHILSEA, His Majestie's late Ambassador at Constanti- 

 nople, who in his Return from thence, visiting Catania in the Island of Sicily, was an EY- 

 WITNESS of that DREADFUL SPECTACLE. Together with a more particular Narrative of the 

 same, as it is collected out of severall Relations sent from Catania (wanting front.) 2 vols. sm. 

 4to. in 1, hf. roan (rubbed) ; with booklabel of Edward Hailstone (VERY RARE), 1. 15s 1669 



' Kircher is said to have examined the interior of Mount Vesuvius suspended by a rope.' Libri Catalogue. 



Father Kircher was one of the foremost scientists of Germany during the XVIIth Century, and although his works 

 do not contain many new discoveries, they are invaluable for giving an encyclopedic view of the sciences treated as they 

 were known in his time. For the historian of physical science they are indispensable. 



10171 KIRKBY (John, pr. ; Gibbon's tutor) ARITHMETICAL INSTITUTIONS, containing a Complete 

 System of ARITHMETIC NATURAL, LOGARITHMICAL, and ALGEBRAICAL in all their Branches . . . 

 after an Easy and Familiar Manner, with many curious and useful Improvements never before 

 made publick, 4to. sound copy in old calf, 8s 6d 1725 



10172 KITTREDGE (A. O.) The METAL WORKER : ESSAYS by various Authors on HOUSE HEATING 

 by Steam, Hot Water, and Hot Air, with Introduction and Tabular Comparisons ; 2nd Edition, 

 with select Letters of Criticism from the ' Metal Worker ', and Chapter on Proportioning Radiating 

 Surfaces by JOHN J. HOGAN, numerous illustrations, roy. 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 12s 6d) New York, 1892 



10173 KLAPROTH (Martin Heinrich; F.R.S.) ANALYTICAL ESSAYS towards promoting the 

 CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE of MINERAL SUBSTANCES, translated from the German, thick 8vo. boards, 

 uncut (RARE), 14s 1801 



10174 ANOTHER COPY, old calf, 12s Qd 



' Klaproth's researches in analytical chemistry were rightly looked upon at that time as patterns for the younger 

 generation of chemists. They aimed at establishing the composition of minerals by means of improved analytical 

 methods, and thereby laying the foundation for a chemical classification of them. His observations were so exact as to 

 result in the discovery of various elements and earths, viz. uranium, titanium, and zirconia, while at the same time he 

 corrected and amp'ified results which had been arrived at by others on many new substances.' Prof. E. v. Meyer. 



10175 , und Friedrich Benjamin WOLFF : CHEMISCHES WORTERBUCH, 5 vols. sm. 8vo. 



old hf. calf, 7s Qd Berlin, 1807-10 



