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.
Third collected edition, THE FIRST TO INCLUDE THE DIALOGO, Galileo's celebrated defense of the Copernican view of the solar system. On its first publication in 1632, it was banned by Pope Urban VIII. The 1744 Opera also contain several hitherto unpublished works, such as the Trattato del modo di misurare con la vista (pp.592-602 in vol.I). Carli and Favaro 478; Cinti 176; Riccardi I, 522.22.
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.
Third collected edition, THE FIRST TO INCLUDE THE DIALOGO, Galileo's celebrated defense of the Copernican view of the solar system. On its first publication in 1632, it was banned by Pope Urban VIII. The 1744 Opera also contain several hitherto unpublished works, such as the Trattato del modo di misurare con la vista (pp.592-602 in vol.I). Carli and Favaro 478; Cinti 176; Riccardi I, 522.22.
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