[Rarebooks] FS: First Latin edition of Galileo's "Dialogo". Strassburg: 1635
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(SCIENCE) Galilei, Galileo. SYSTEMA COSMICUM... IN QUO QUATUOR DIALOGIS, De
Duobus Maximus Mundi Systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano... Ex Italica
Lingua Latine Conversum. Accessit Appendix Gemina... Strassburg: Impensis
Eleviriorum, Typis Davidis Hautti. 1635. 4to. (16),495,(25)pp. Index. With the final
leaf of errata. Added engraved title, and portrait of Galileo. Text with woodcut
diagrams. BOUND WITH: Galilei, Galileo. TRACTATUS DE PROPORTIONUM
INSTRUMENTO... Editio Secunda. Strassburg: Davidis Hautti. 1635. (8),104pp. Text with
numerous woodcut diagrams. Lacking the one folding plate (frequently found
lacking). Cont. vellum, somewhat soiled. $25,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first Latin edition of Galileo’s DIALOGO which had been published in
Italian in 1632, bound with the second edition of Galileo’s “De Proportionum
Instrumento,” which is a reissue of the 1612 sheets, with new preliminary
matter. I: Cinti 96; Riccardi I, 512; Willems 426. II: Not in Cinti. Riccardi I,
507.
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