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1438 GALILEI (Galileo) Opere ; Prima Edizione Completa, condotta sugli autentici MSS. 

 Palatini [per cura di EUGENIO ALBfeRl] ; con Supplemento (Ritratto e Tavole) ; with portrait and 

 plates, 16 vols. roy. 8vo. in 17, LARGE PAPER ; boards, uncut, £4. 10* (p. F.270.) Firenze, 1842-56 



Last and bbst Edition of Galileo's complete works, including his life his disciple by Viviani, and the former's 

 valuable Cobresposdesci with some of his most celebrated contemporaries, in itself fonuing' valuable material on the 

 Btate of science during the begiuninjj of the XVII. century, and the history of his time. 



THE RARE FIRST EDITION : 



1439 DiALOGO dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i DUE Massimi Systemi 



de MONDO ToLEMAico, e COPERNICANO ; proponendo indeteruiinataniente le ragione Filosoftche, 

 e Naturali tanto per Tuna, quanto per I'altra parte ; unth engraved front, representing Ari^totle^ 

 Ptolemy, and Copernicus, woodcuts, and numerous diagrams, 4to. boards, uncut {a number of II. 

 somewhat browned, but a SOUND AND VERY large copy) ; very rare, £3. 13s Qd 



Fiorenza, G. B. Landini^ 1632 

 FiBiT EoirioN of this epoch-making work, a masterly defence of the Coiwrnicaa syitcin, but causing its author's 



Jmprirtonmeul, and— as has been 8tate<l— his being put to the torture. 



The work having been rigidly suppressetl, not only for its 'heretical' views, but also for having ott'ended Po^w 



Urban VIII. 's vanity, who believed himself satirised as the dull interpreter of the Ari-stotelian system, the tirst edition has 



become exckssively bare. 



1410 Seconda Impressione, accresciiito di una Lettera dello ste.s.Ho, non piii stampata, e di 



varj Trattati di piii Autori [par cura di Cellenio Zacclori] ; with vignette and numerous diagrams, 

 4to. soundcopy in contemporary vellum, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, 7s Qd ibidem, 1710 

 The second separate edition of the ' Dialogo ', having several letters, including tliat to the Duchess of Tuscany, added. 



buffon's copy : 



i:H Systema Cosmicum : in quo Dialogis IV de duobus maxiniis Mundi Systematibus, 



Ptoleniaico et CopernicAno, Rationibus utrinque propositis indeftnitb diaseritur [in Latinuiu 

 reddidit JOANN. ANT. HUGUETAN] ; accessit locorum S. SciilPTUR.*: cum Terne niobilitate 

 conciliatio [Pauli AntonII Foscarini] ; with front, of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus, 

 woodcuts, and diagrams^ 4to. old vellum^ with auto. * Le Clerc de Buflfon, 1730 ' on title, £1. 5i' 



Lugduni, 1641 



The second Latin translation. The above copy is especially interesting as having belonge<l to BufTon at the age of 23 



(according to the above inscription), whose love for the study of natural science it may probably have powerfully 



quickened. It also has an auto, of Buffon dated 1734, followed by that of his friend Gukneau dk MontbiiILLard, pasted in. 



14(2 Editio Nova [cum Indice, pp. 24]; with engraved title, and diagrams, 12mo. (pp.728), 



old calf {one Joint broken), V2s 6d Londini, 1063 



The first edition printed in England, unknown to Lowndes, and bare. 



1443 Editio Altera ; accessit praeter conciliationem Locorum S. Scriptural cum Terra? Mobili- 



tate, ejusdem Tractatus de Motu, nunc primum in Latinum versus ; with fine portrait and 

 engraved title by J. Mtdder, and numerous diagrams, thick 4to. contemporary calf [back slightly 

 damaged), \0s Qd Lugd. Batav., 1699 



This e<Iitlon was unknown to Graesse, and contains the first Latin translation of the important ' Discorsi e dimostrazioai 

 matematiche . . . alia niecanica e ai movimenti locali.' 



1444 Difesa contro alle Calunie et Imposture di Baldassar Capra ; with diagrams, sm. 4to. 



sewn, 6* Bologna, 1655 



See Capba, ante, for the work which provoked the above reply. 



1445 Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intomo a due nuove scienze attenenti alia 



Mecanica Hi i Movimenti Locali, eon una Appendice del centro di gravity d' alcuni Solidi, 

 priinera edizione ; with numerous fine woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. old hf vellum, with 

 auto. 'Joa. Cottliebius Uberis, 1753' on obverse of title, and 2 libi^ary stamps on reverse {very rare), 

 £1. 10* Leida, Elsevirii, 1638 



First Edition of one of the author's most important works, which laid the foundation of dynamics, containing tlie first 

 law of motion, his laws of falling bodies (the result of experiments made between 1(302 and 1004), demonstrating the 

 {Kirabolic curves of projectiles (hitherto believed to move in a straight line and suddenly fall vertically to the ground), the 

 laws of cohesion, etc. etc. 



1446 Le Operationi del CoMPASSO Geometrico, e Militare; with folding plate, woodcuts, 



and numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. *ej/'n, 6* Bulogna, 1656 



Containing Galileo's invention of the circle of propirtion. 



H47 11 S.\GGIAT0RE, nel quale con Bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose eontenute 



nella libra astronomica e filosotica di LOTARIA Sarsi, primera edizione ; with engraved title and 

 portrait by Villamoena {fine impression), and engravings in text, sm. 4to. old limp vellum {some II. 

 wormed on blank margin, otherwise a large and sound copy) ; VERY RARE, ivith bookplate of 

 Prince M. A. Borghese, £1. IQs Roma, G. Mascardi, 1623 



An answer to Horatio Grassi's polemics against Oalileo on the nature of eomets, and still unsurpassed as a masterpiece 

 of crushing scientific criticism. 



1448 SIDEREUS NUNCIUS, magna longequeadmirabilia Spectacula pandens . . . qua? sunt o})serv- 



ata in Luna; Facie, tixis innunieris, Lacteo Circulo, Stellis Nebulosis, apprime verb in IV Planetis 

 CIRCA Jovis JStellam disparibus intervallis atque Periodis, celeritate mirabili circumvolutis ; 

 quos novissime Auctor deprehendit primus, atque Medicea Sidera nuncupandos decrevit ; with 

 woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 8vo. sewn, 7s 6d Londini, J. Flesher, 1653 



Containing Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's 4 Satellites. 



1449 -■ — Tractatus de Proportionum Instrumento, (juod merito compendium universal 



Geometriae dixeris ; Lingua Latina conversus, adjectis Notis, quibus et artihciosa Instrumenti 



fabrica, et usus ulterior e.xponitur [auctore Matthia Bernegerro], editio II. ; with folding plate, 



and numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. boards {a number of 11. badly browned), 8s 6d Argentorati, 1635 



a Latin translation of No. 1446. The title contains the inscription 'ex Bibliotheca J. B. Cassinii . . . Venetiis 1665 '. 



1450 GALL (Jolin, Canning Coll., Lucknow), and David BOBEBTSON : Popular Readings in 

 Science, illustrated, post 8vo. d. {out of print), 2* (p. 4*) 1895 



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