Acoustics.- Kircher (Athanasius) Phonurgia, sive Conjugium Mechanico-physicum Artis et Naturae Paranympha Phonosophia Concinnatum, 2 parts in 1, first edition, half-title, engraved additional title, portrait of Leopold I (the dedicatee) by G. A. Wolfgang and 2 plates, title with engraved vignette, numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations, 1 or 2 ff. with light tidemark but a crisp, clean copy generally, contemporary speckled calf, spine rubbed with labels renewed, corners bumped, extremities rubbed, [Brunet III, 668; Wellcome II, p.395], folio, Kempten, Rudolph Dreherr, 1673.

⁂ A very good copy of the first European monograph on acoustics. Includes accounts of talking statues, listening devices and esoteric instruments as well as a discussion of the influence of music on the human mind, and the therapeutic use of music.