Lot 219 , Kircher, Athanasius - Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica Opus Tripartitum ... editio secunda post Romanam multo correctior. 27 engraved plates (only, ex.29), many text illus. & diagrs (3 full page); (28), 798, (38) pp.; newly

° Kircher, Athanasius - Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica Opus Tripartitum ... editio secunda post Romanam multo correctior. 27 engraved plates (only, ex.29), many text illus. & diagrs (3 full page); (28), 798, (38) pp.; newly rebound half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered
panelled spine, 4to. Cologne: apud Iodocum Kalcoven, 1643

£300-400

Condition:
Title lt. soiled, some spots and stains (pp.460-80 heavy in margins), some light browning - but good overall, top outer corner repair pp.107-08 just affects first/last words of first 6 lines (also printed marginal note), new e/ps. and blanks, lacks pictorial engraved title. As there is no list of plates, we are unable to advise which plates are lacking.

Sold for £500