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KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. 1602–1680. :China Monumentis, qua Sacris qua Profanis. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1667.
Folio (385 x 265 mm). Engraved portrait, 2 engraved maps (1 folding); 23 engraved plates and tables (2 folding), 59 engravings to text, LACKING engraved frontispiece. Modern quarter red morocco; title and following two leaves repaired at margins on verso, plate at p. 137 lacking all areas beyond folds, 120 mm vertical tear to T3, gutter of final leaf repaired.
FIRST EDITION of Kircher\’s popular and richly illustrated work on Chinese culture and language, drawn largely from the accounts of fellow Jesuits Adam Schall, Martino Marinti, Johann Grueber, and Matteo Ricci. This work contains the first Chinese vocabulary and Sanskrit grammar printed in the West and remained the primary source for the study of those languages until the nineteenth century. The Chinese vocabulary is drawn from a translation of the 8th-century Nestorian stele; the Sanskrit grammar on the work of Jesuit Heinrich Roth. Caillet 5773; Brunet III, 666; Honeyman V, 1824; Löwendahl 133 (\”one of the most influential books in shaping the European conception of China in its day\”); Lust 37; Merrill 20.
阿塔纳修斯·基尔彻。1602-1680. 中国纪念碑，作为圣礼，作为普罗法尼。阿姆斯特丹：约翰内斯·扬索纽斯·范·瓦斯贝热和埃利埃斯·韦耶尔斯特雷特，1667年。
