Lot 321
  • 321

KIRCHER, ARS MAGNA SCIENDI, IN XII LIBROS DIGESTA, 1669

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • Ars magna sciendi, in xii libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo per artificiosum combinationum contexum de omni re proposita plurimis & prope infinitis rationibus disputarii, omniumque summaria quædam cognito comparari potest. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes bound in one, folio (370 x 235mm.), engraved additional titles, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, engraved plate of the tree of philosophy, engraved diagrams (in the text, 2 inserted), 5 folding tables, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, modern folding cloth box, some spotting and browning

Provenance

Cistercian monastery of Velehrad (Moravia), title page inscribed: "Pro M[o]n[aste]rio Wellehradensi Procuravit P. Martinus Hrabowskÿ ibidem Professus", with his initials P.M.H.P.W. stamped on upper cover; Prince of Liechtenstein, armorial bookplate; bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1983

Literature

Tomash & Williams K46; Dünnhaupt p.2344 no. 23; Merrill 22; STCN 844196347

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

Kircher’s attempt at a universal language to describe and categorise all language in a universal system.