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Galilei, Galileo

Works of Galileo Galilei Florentine noble academic lincean ... First volume [-third], 1718

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Florence, in the printing house of H.R.H. for Gio. Gaetano Tartini, and Santi Franchi, 1718. In 4th. 3 volumes. Vol. 1: cxii 628 [i.e. 644] pp. Portrait of Galileo and a folded plate. Vol. 2: [viii] 722 [2] pp. Vol. 3: [vi] 484 [52] pp. latest white paper, numerous diagrams, figures, tables, etc. in the text, marginal marks of humidity on the first leaves of the first volume, . Coeval rigid parchment binding with gold decorations on the spine and title, red spray cuts. Ex libris Andrea Schiavi on the front cover; on the title page stamps of an extinct eighteenth-century religious institution. Splendid specimen. 

Specialist Notes

Second collective edition of Galilei's Opere , edited by Tommaso Bonaventura. The first two volumes repropose, with some additions, the same texts of the Bologna edition of 1655-'56, while the third contains a series of unpublished writings, including the treatise on probability "On the discovery of dice". Also in this edition the “Dialogue” of 1632 and the “Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine” which were still in the Index are missing.  

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