Galileo Galilei

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Sidereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare. Padua: in the house of the author by Pietro Marinelli, 1606. [ Bound with :] Galileo GALILEI. Difesa contro alle calunnie & imposture di Baldessare Capra . Venice: Tomaso Baglioni, 1607.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)

Dialogo... sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano . Florence: Gian Battista Landini, 1632.

GALILÉE (1564-1642). Sidereus, Nuncius Magna, Longeque admirabilia Spectacula pandens... Apprime vero in Quatuor Planetis circa Iovis Stellam disparibus. Francfort: [Zacharias] Palthenius, 1610.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)

Discorsi e Dimonstrazioni Matematiche, intorno due nuove scienze attenenti alla Mecanica & i Movimenti Locali. Leiden: Elzevier Press, 1638.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo. Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano . Florence: Giovanni Batista Landini, 1632.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali . Leiden: Elzevier Press, 1638.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo... sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano . Florence: Gian Battista Landini, 1632.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)

Sidereus, Nuncius Magna, Longeque admirabilia Spectacula pandens... Apprime vero in Quatuor Planetis circa Iovis Stellam disparibus . Frankfurt: [Zacharias] Palthenius, 1610. [ Bound with :] KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630). Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo nuper ad mortales misso à Galilaeo Galilaeo . Frankfurt: Zacharias Palthenius, 1611.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)

Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)

Il saggiatore . Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Il saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella libra astronomica e filosofica di Lotario Sarsi Sigensano. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623. 4° (215 x 158mm). Engraved title-page, portrait of Galileo, woodcut initials and headpiece, engraved diagrams in text. Without 4 leaves of preliminary verses present in some issues. (Minor marginal repairs in first four leaves, occasional spotting and browning, repairs to some leaves.) Early vellum, title to spine and bottom edges in early manuscript (minor worming to upper panel, spine lightly soiled). Provenance : Luca degli Albizzi (ownership inscription to title-page, copious notes and corrections in brown ink throughout).

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.

[GALILÉE (1564-1642)]

Copie contemporaine d'une lettre à Alfonso Antonini à propos de la libration de la lune. 20 février 1638.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Il saggiatore . Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Systema cosmicum . London: Thomas Dicas for D. Pauli, 1663. 8°. Engraved additional title, woodcut illustrations (light browning, occasional rust-holes, S6 holed with loss of letters, library stamp partially removed from verso of title). Contemporary calf, spine gilt (upper cover detached, head of spine chipped).

[GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)] — CASTELLI, Benedetto

Risposta alle opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e des S. Vincenzio di Grazia, contro al trattato del Sig. Galileo Galilei, delle cose che stanno su l'acqua o che in quella si muouono ... Nella quale si contengono molte considerazioni filosofiche remote dalle vulgate opinioni. Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1615.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, (b. 1618)]. Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei, con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Discorso al serenissimo Don Cosimo II Gran Duca di Toscana intorno alle cose, che stanno in su l'acqua, o che in quella si muovono . Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1612. 4° (225 x 160mm). Woodcut Medici arms on title, woodcut device to final recto, diagrams in text. (Sporadic light spotting or staining, lower corner of I4 torn not affecting text, A1 and K1 reinforced at hinge.) Later flexible card wrappers (lightly soiled and repaired). Provenance : early ownership inscription to title-page (illegible) -- number in blue ink to upper panel.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Il saggiatore . Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, (b. 1618)]

Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei, con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656.

GALILEI -- [PALMERINI, Tommaso]. Considerazioni sopra il discorso del Sig. Galileo Galilei intorno alle cose, che stanno in sù l'acqua, o che in quella si muouono. Pisa: G.B. Boschetti & G. Fontani, 1612. 4° (232 x 155mm). (Light dampstaining.) Modern wrappers, uncut. Provenance : G. Galletti (faded stamp at foot of title). FIRST EDITION. Carli and Favaro 51; Riccardi II, 240.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, b. c. 1618]. Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656. 12° (131 x 72mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved plates, 2 letterpress tables, woodcut initials, headpieces and diagrams. (One plate with short clean tear repaired, light dampstaining to last 19 leaves and one folding table, lacking errata leaf and final blank called for by Cinti.) 18th-century calf gilt, edges speckled red (rubbed, small chips to spine and corners). Provenance : Samuel Boddington (bookplate).

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Systema cosmicum: in quo dialogis iv. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite disseritur . - FOSCARINI, Paolo Antonio (1565-1616). Locorum S. Scripturae cum terra mobilitate conciliatio . Lyon: Ioan. Antonius Huguetan, 1641. 2 parts in one vol., 4° (224 x 170mm). Additional engraved title-page, title printed in red and black with engraved device, full-page portrait of Galileo, initials, head- and tailpieces, numerous diagrams. (Some light dampstaining at start of volume, some heavy spotting towards end, small hole to ccc3 with loss of a few letters.) Contemporary vellum, lettered in manuscript on upper panel and spine, sides centered with arms, label to spine (label chipped, vellum chipped at corners, lower panel lightly spotted). Provenance : Vallet (signature to binding, front pastedown and title-page) -- Ambroise Lefèvre (bookseller's label) -- Dauphiné Bertrand de Montfort (binding) -- Leonard Richard (of Auxerre, early annotations to front pastedown and partially erased inscription to upper cover) -- illegible stamp to front free endpaper. SECOND LATIN EDITION of the Dialogo , the summation of Galileo's astronomical thought and the work which directly precipitated his trial of 1633. Also included in this volume is Foscarini's Letter on the Opinion of Pythagoras and Copernicus on the Motion of the Earth . Carli-Favaro 38 (180); Cinti 215 (109); Riccardi I 513.

GASSENDI, Pierre (1592-1655). Institutio astronomica: juxta hypotheses tam veterum quam recentiorum . – Galileo GALILEI (1564-1642). Sidereus nuncius. – Johannes KEPLER (1571-1630). Dioptrice . London: Jacob Flesher for William Morden, 1653.

GRASSI, Orazio (1583-1654). Ratio Ponderum Librae et Simbellae . Naples: Matthaeus Nuccius, 1627. 4° (214 x 150mm). Engraved device on title and one engraved plate. (Waterstaining throughout, mainly marginal, heavier at start and affecting corner of plate and few letters of title, occasional browning and spotting.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (some staining and wear). Provenance : contemporary inscription on title.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo ... Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernico . 'Florence' [Naples]: 1710. Large 8° (249 x 175mm). Title in red and black, engraved title-page vignette, woodcut initials, diagrams in text; title to Lettera alla Granduchessa with woodcut device. (Occasional light spotting, marginal repair to title, small marginal hole or tear in 3 leaves.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered gilt.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)

Opere, divise in quattro tomi, in questa nuova edizione accresciute de molte cose inedite . Edited by Giuseppe Toaldo (1719-1797). Padua: Stamperia del Seminario, appresso Gio. Manfrè, 1744.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). La operazione del compasso geometrico, et militare . Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1640. 4° (222 x 165mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, diagrams, one folding engraved diagram tipped in. (Occasional small stains, short marginal tear to G2, several bifolia reinforced at hinge, some spotting to folding diagram.) Modern stiff paper wrappers. Provenance : old pen annotations to A1.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Opere . Florence: Tartini, 1718. 3 volumes, large 8° (252 x 182mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait, general title to vol. 1 in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut diagrams of which 19 full-page, one folding engraved plate. (Two short tears to title of vol. I without loss, marginal tear to Dd8 in vol. II, front endpapers a little wormed in vol. III, small chip in vol. III to lower edge from R extending and expanding slightly through to end and repaired towards end, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum, gilt spine labels (covers lightly soiled with a little light spotting, two heavier marks to lower cover of vol. II).

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Opere ... in questa nuova edizione accresciute di molte cose inedite . Padua: Gio. Manfrè, 1744. 4 volumes, 4° (241 x 180mm). Engraved portrait by Zucchi, folding engraved plate and letterpress table, numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text. (Occasional light foxing mainly to edges). Contemporary vellum, leather label on spine, speckled edges (lightly bowed). Provenance : unidentified ownership inscription on endpapers.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Opere . Florence: Gaetano Tartini and Santi Franchi, 1718. 3 volumes, 8° (246 x 181mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait, general title to vol. I in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved folding plate and woodcut diagrams. (Small marginal clean tear to V1 in vol. III.) Contemporary vellum, leather spine label, marbled edges (a few spots and stains, extremities occasionally rubbed).

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Nov-antiqua sanctissimorum patrum, & probatorum theologorum doctrina, de sacrae scripturae testimoniis, in conclusionibus mere naturalibus, quae sensatâ experientiâ, & necessariis demonstrationibus evinci possunt, temere non usurpandis . Strasbourg: Elzevir, 1636.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Systema cosmicum in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus. Leiden: F. Haaring & D. Severinus, 1699. 2 volumes in one, 4° (212 x 172mm). Woodcut illustrations and diagrams (rust marks in vol.I, vol.II lightly browned). Contemporary cartone alla rustica , uncut (upper inner hinge broken, joints damaged, soiled). Provenance : Magnani Library of Bologna (stamp on title and library markings). The Leiden edition of the Dialogo , the second volume entitled Discursus et Demonstrationes Mathematicae . Carli and Favaro 395; Cinti 166; Riccardi I, 513.10(5).

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Opere . Padua: G. Manfrè, 1744. 4 volumes, 4° (243 x 178mm). Engraved portrait, one folding engraved plate, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, letterpress table. (Vol. IV title soiled, damaged and crudely repaired, some marginal dampstaining, the odd wormtrack, a little soiling.) Modern vellum-backed boards. Third editon of Galileo's works. Carli and Favaro 478; Cinti 176; Riccardi I, 522.22. (4)

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo . Padua: G. Manfrè, 1744. 4° (236 x 171mm). Woodcut printers' device, illustrations and diagrams. (Title soiled, damaged and repaired, some waterstaining.) Modern vellum-backed marbled boards. This is volume IV of the Works of 1744 with a new title. Carli and Favaro 479; Cinti 178.

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Considerazioni al Tasso. Rome: Pagliarini, 1793. 4° (294 x 224mm). Woodcut device on title. (Wormtrack at head of title and next leaf, worming to lower margins of early leaves with resultant tear to one leaf crudely repaired on verso.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Galileo's posthumously published polemical attack on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata . A well-margined copy. Carli and Favaro 615; Cinti 180; Riccardi I, 524.24.

Sidereus nuncius, and 3 other works

Galileo Galilei, 1610

Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti

Galileo Galilei, 1613

Il Saggiatore

Galileo Galilei, 1623

Dialogo, the Honeyman copy

Galileo Galilei, 1632

Systema cosmicum

Galileo Galilei, 1663

GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, (b. 1618)]

Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei, con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656.