466 OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON MOLLUSKS 



Occasional Papers on Mollusks 



Published by 



The Department of Mollusks 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 



Cambridee, Massachusetts 



Volume 5 30 January 1998 Number 76 



ON THE PROVENANCE OF CERTAIN BOOKS IN 

 THE DEPARTMENT OF MOLLUSKS. 



Richard L Johnson 



The recent sale by the John Crerar Library of 

 Chicago of a duphcate of Gahlei, Gahleo. 1 632 

 Dialogo...sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo 

 Tolemico, e Copemicano... Florence, Giovanni Batista 

 Landini, 1832, tumed out to be a remarkable copy 

 inscribed by Galileo to Zaccaria Sagredo, brother of 

 Galileo's patron Giovanni Francesco, as weU as, a 

 previously unrecognized uncorrected first issue, 

 obviously to the delight of the London dealer who 

 purchased it. 



This reminded me that a copy of Planci (1739 ) 

 which I purchased many years ago was a soldbythe 

 British Museum even thoush it was inscribed and 



presented by the Museum's founder Hans Sloan e 

 (1660-1753), "Hansio Sloan Regiae Academeiae 



