Athanaisii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu, China monumentis qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi primi... [etc.]
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Type of record: Book
Title: Athanaisii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu, China monumentis qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi primi... [etc.]
Other titles: China monumentis... illustrata
Classmark: Large Geography J-4.8 KIR
Creator(s): Kircher, Athanasius (1680)
Publisher: Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet
Publication city: Amstelodami
Date(s): 1667
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 12 unnumbered pages, 237 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/216921
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011318549705181
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Added engraved ill. t.p.
Signatures: *⁵ **⁴ A-Z⁴ Aa-Hh⁴.
Numerous engravings in text as well as on plates.
Engraved title vignette; initials; ornaments.
"Elenchus librorum a P. Athanasio Kirchero... editorum": 2 pages at end.
Includes index.
Contents: Monumenti syro-sinici interpretatio. -- De variis itineribus in Chinam susceptis. -- De idololatria ex Occidente primum in Persidem, Indiam ac deinde in ultimas Orientis, Tartariae, Chinae, Japponiae regiones successiva propagatione introducta. -- China curiosis naturae & artis miraculis illustrata. -- De architectonica caeterisque mechanicis artibus Sinensium. -- De Sinensium literatura.
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