[Rarebooks] FS: 6 Galileo titles bound together (all are Bologna: HH. Del Dozza. 1665)

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(SCIENCE) Galilei, Galileo. [OPERE]. Bologna: HH. Del Dozza. 1655. 4to.
6 parts, each separately collated and paginated; this is, in effect,
Volume 2 of the 2 volume OPERE DI GALILEO GALILEI, here with 6 parts,
where most Volume 2 were bound with only 5 parts. See below. Cont.
vellum, soiled, spine hand lettered. The spine is quite chipped,
missing about 1/3 of the vellum. There is no half-title as there should
be in Volume 2. Internally a beautiful, clean
text.   $4,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This volume of the first collected works of Galileo (d. 1642) contains,
each with the above imprint, Bologna: HH Del Dozza. 1665:
1. DELLA SCIENZA MECANICA... 43,(1)pp. Illustrated with woodcuts.
2. SYDEREUS NUNCIUS... 60pp. With woodcuts. Note: within is
"Continuatione Del Nuntio Sidereo," with its own title page.
3. ISTORIA E DEMOSTRATIONI INTORNO ALLE MACCHIE SOLARI... 7,(1),156pp.
With woodcuts, some full-page.
4. DE TRIBUS COMETIS... 48,(2),53-106,(101-102),103-126pp. Note: within
are 3 parts that have their own title-pages; "DISCORSO DELLE COMETE DI
MARIO GUIDUCCI", "LETTERA AL... TARQUINIO GALLUZZI", and "LETTERA DEL
SIG. GALILEO GALILEI AL PADRE CHIRSTOFORO GRIENBERGER".
5. IL SAGGIATORE... (8),179,(1)pp. With woodcut diagrams.
6. DISCORSI, E DIMOSTRATIONI MATEMATICHE... (8),238,(6)pp. With
woodcuts.
Usually our #1 (above), DELLA SCIENZA MECANICA is bound as the final
part in Volume 1. All of these individual parts are found offered
separately in the trade, having been removed from the OPERE volumes.
See Carli e Favaro. BIBLIOGRAFIA GALILEIANA #251 (p.55-59); Cinti 132;
Riccardi I, 518-519.

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