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Athanasii Kircheri è Soc. Jesu Latium : id est, nova & parallela Latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio : qua quaecunque vel natura, vel veterum Romanorum ingenium admiranda effecit, geographico-historico-physico ratiocinio, juxta rerum gestarum, temporumque seriem exponitur & enucleatur.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio GC6 K6323 671l
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.
- Standardized Title:
- Latium
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Clement X, Pope, 1590-1676.
- Lazio (Italy)--Description and travel.
- Lazio (Italy).
- Rome (Italy)--Description and travel.
- Rome (Italy).
- Rome--Antiquities.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Antiquities.
- Architecture, Domestic--Italy.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Italy.
- Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy).
- Clement X, Pope, 1590-1676--Portraits.
- Clement.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capuchins (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Nicola (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages, 263 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 36 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 39 cm (folio)
- Fingerprint:
- umo, e.le ues, liDi (3) 1671 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Amstelodami [Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet, Anno MDCLXXI. [1671]
- Notes:
- Added engraved title page.
- Engraved illustrations.
- Dedicated to Pope Clement X; dedication preceded by an engraved portrait of the Pope.
- "Villae celeberrimae ab Adriano Caesare ... extructae vera ... ichnographia ab Pyrrho Ligorio olim, postea a Francisco Contini recognita et descripta ..." (2 double plates, followed by "Totius plani villae Adrianeae declaratio generalis" [6] p.) inserted between p. 144-145.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown calf with gold-tooled single-fillet border on covers; title stamped in gold on spine.
- Culture Class Collection copy has inked over ms. inscription: "Ex Bibliotheca Cappucinorum Conventus Avilianae[?]" corrected to read "Ex bibliotheca prepositi Nicola" on title page.
- Culture Class Collection copy has two effaced stamps on title page.
- OCLC:
- 2767427
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