[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Latin ed. of Galileo's "Dialogo" b/w his "De Propotionum Instrumento"

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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 Elzeviorum, 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. This copy does not have the folding plate, seen in some copies, but more frequently found lacking. Cont. vellum, somewhat soiled.	$25,000.00
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 (no mention of a plate).


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