Kircher, Athanasius : Iter extaticum coeleste... a P. Gaspare Schotto Regicuriano... Hac secunda editione praelusionibus & scholiis illustratum... Herbipoli, Johannis Andreae Endteri & Wolfgangi junioris haeredum. Prostat Nuremberge apud eosdem, 1671

In-4°, mm. 200x160, pp. (24), 689, (15), 12 cc. of plates. 1 copperplate frontispiece. On the back of the title page a large coat of arms of the dedicatee Joachim, abbot of Fulda. Contemporary full leather binding with 5 ribs, titles and decorations in gold on the spine. Trimmed margins, spray cuts (faded). Defects and light peeling on the boards and spine. Woodworm damage with small losses of text from p. 543 to p. 568. Old restoration on f. Aaaa2. Browning and sporadic foxing. Tear on plate 7 and p. 181, with small loss of text. Second edition, which for the first time unites Kircher's two imaginary journeys, through space and on earth. The astronaut Theodidactus (Kircher) is accompanied by the angel Cosmiel over the moon, the planets and the stars and is thus introduced to the whole of contemporary astrological and cosmological knowledge. The branches show sunspots, the lunar surface, Saturn with rings and much more. - de Backer/S. IV, 1056. - See Kenney 99 (ed. 1671). - Graesse IV, 21. - Wellcome III, 395. - Caillet 5775. Dunnhaupt 2335, 12.I.2.