[Rarebooks] FS: Galileo's very scarce "Memorie e Lettere" w/eng. plates & facsimiles. Modena: 1818-21

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(SCIENCE) Galilei, Galileo. MEMORIE E LETTERE, Inedite Finora o Disperse. Ordinate ed Illustrate con Annotazioni dal Cav. Giambatista Venturi... Parte Prima Dall’ Anno 1587 Sino Alla Fine del 1616. [Parte Seconda Dall’ Anno 1616 Fino Alla Sua Morte del 1642]. Modena: Per G. Vincenzi e Comp. 1818-1821. Tall 4to. 2 vols. 280;(4),368,(2)pp. Illus. with 2 engraved frontis. portraits, and 12 engraved plates and facsimiles (8 folding). Cont. brown morocco, gilt, over marbled boards, hinges rubbed, with a few cracks & boards a bit scraped, but very sound. An untrimmed, wide margined copy, possibly "large paper."  Very scarce.                   $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Cinti 188; Riccardi I, 526.

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