Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis : qua sacris qu ̉profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata auspiciis Leopoldi primi, Roman. Imper. semper Augusti, munificentissimi mecaenatis.

This work, by the Amsterdam printer Jacob van Meurs, represents a unauthorized copy of an original 1667 printing by the printers Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten, who were Kircher's regular Amsterdam publishers. It includes the same text but contains artfully copied engravings in a som...

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Main Author: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Other Authors: Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680 (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:Latin
Created: Amstelodami : Apud Jacobum ̉Meurs, Anno M. DC. LXVII [1667]
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100 1 |a Kircher, Athanasius,  |d 1602-1680. 
240 1 0 |a China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ...  |f 1667 
245 1 0 |a Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis :  |b qua sacris qu ̉profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata auspiciis Leopoldi primi, Roman. Imper. semper Augusti, munificentissimi mecaenatis. 
246 1 7 |a Athanasii Kircheri China illustrata 
246 1 |i Binder's spine title:  |a Kircheri China illustrata 
246 3 |a China illustrata 
260 |a Amstelodami :  |b Apud Jacobum ̉Meurs,  |c Anno M. DC. LXVII [1667] 
300 |a [16], 237, [11] p., [26] leaves of plates (11 folded) :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 32 cm. 
500 |a Added engraved title page bears title: Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv China illvst[rata]. 
500 |a Added engraved title page has imprint: "Amstelodami, Apud Iacobem ̉Meurs, in fossa vulg ̣de Keysersgracht, Anno MD. C. LXVII." 
500 |a Signatures: *? **? A-2H?. 
500 |a Main body of text printed in double columns. 
500 |a Title page vignette shows two cherubs holding the seal of the Jesuit order. 
500 |a Initials, tailpieces, marginal notes. 
500 |a Includes indexes. 
520 |a This work, by the Amsterdam printer Jacob van Meurs, represents a unauthorized copy of an original 1667 printing by the printers Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten, who were Kircher's regular Amsterdam publishers. It includes the same text but contains artfully copied engravings in a somewhat smaller format. When Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten (who died shortly thereafter) were apprised of this unauthorized copy they called for a meeting with Van Meurs, to be mediated by a third Amsterdam printer and attended by a notary public. At this meeting, on 27 June 1667, the aggrieved parties demanded that Van Meurs hand over the entirety of his copy of the work: all his printed copies along with his copper and woodblock plates. Van Meurs was also to cease and desist from publishing this work again. In return Van Meurs received 3,450 florins, which basically covered the costs of his "reprint." Subsequent printings at the shop of Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten (and later with Weyerstraten's widow) used the slightly smaller engravings that Van Meurs had commissioned, though the text remained precisely the same. 
561 |a Burns Library copy: armorial bookplate of George Gostling on front pastedown; in ms. at fore-edge head of front flyleaf recto: C. Morton. 
590 |a Burns Library copy: vellum bound. 
650 0 |a Chinese language  |v Early works to 1800. 
651 0 |a China  |x Description and travel  |v Early works to 1800. 
651 0 |a China  |x Social life and customs  |v Early works to 1800. 
655 7 |a Armorial bookplates (Provenance)  |2 rbprov 
655 7 |a Autographis (Provenance)  |2 rbprov 
655 7 |a Vellum bindings (Binding)  |2 rbbin 
655 7 |a Jesuitica.  |2 local 
700 0 |a Leopold  |b I,  |c Holy Roman Emperor,  |d 1640-1705,  |e sponsor. 
700 1 |a Meurs, Jacob van,  |d 1619-1680,  |e printer. 
700 1 |a Gostling, George,  |e former owner. 
740 0 |a Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv China illvst[rata] 
752 |a Netherlands  |d Amsterdam.