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Galilei, Galileo

Works by Galileo Galilei Florentine nobleman ... Second volume, 1718

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€ 150 - 250

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€ 284

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Florence, Giovanni Gaetano Tartini & Santi Franchi, 1718. In 4th. Volume 2 of 4, title page with woodcut frieze, half-title, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text including some full-page, woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces, fresh copy partially in beards, small marginal gaps in particular at the lower outer corners of some pages , very slight initial blooms, woodworm hole in the lug, full modern rigid parchment binding. The lot contains the pamphlet Two letters from Galileo Galilei and one from Kepler unpublished with notes by Pietro Bigazzi, Florence, from the Publisher, 1841 in the original paperback.
Second edition of the Works of Galileo edited by Tommaso Bonaventura, here only in its second volume which largely reproduces, with some additions, the material collected in the first edition by Manolessi. Rich in scientific illustrations in the text. Leg 583; Riccardo I, 520.

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