HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 73 



1438 GALILEI (Galileo) OPERE ; PRIMA EDIZIONE COMPLETA, condotta sugli autentici MSS. 



valuable CORRESPONDENCE with some of his most celebrated contemporaries, in itself forming valuable material on tho 

 state of science during the beginning of the X VII. century, and the history of his time. 



THE RARE FIRST EDITION : 



1439 _ DIALOGO dove ne i congress! di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i DUE MASSIMI SYSTEM: 



de MONDO TOLEMAICO, e COPERNICANO ; proponendo indeterminatamente le ragione Filosofiche, 

 e Natural! tanto per 1'una, quanto per 1'altra parte ; with engraved front, representing Aristotle, 

 Ptolemy, and Copernicus, ivoodcuts, and numerous diagrams, 4to. boards, uncut (a number of II. 

 somewhat browned, but a SOUND AND VERY LARGE COPY) ; VERY RARE, 3. 135 Gd 



Fiorenza, G. B. Landini, 1(532 



FIRST EDITION of this epoch-making work, a masterly defence of the Copernican system, but causing its author's 

 imprisonment, and as has been stated his being put to the torture. 



The work having been rigidly suppressed, iiot only for its 'heretical' views, but also for having offended Pope 

 Urban Vlll.'s vanity, who believed himself satirised as the dull interpreter of the Aristotelian system, the 'first edition has 

 become EXCESSIVELY BARB. 



1440 SECONDA IMPRESSIONS, accresciuto di una Lettera dello stesso, non piii stampata, e di 



varj Trattati dipiii Autori [parcura di CELLENIO ZACCLORI] ; with vignette and numerous diagrams, 

 4t J. soundcopy in contemporary vellum, with bookplate of Philip 2nd Earl Stanhope, Is Qd ibidem, 1710 

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



BUFFON'S COPY : 



1441 _ SYSTEMA COSMICUM : in quo Dialogis IV de duobus maxiinis Mundi Systematibus, 



Ptolemaico ec Copernicano, Rationibus utrinque propositis indetinitk disseritur [in Latinum 

 reddidit JOANN. ANT. HUGUETAN]; accessit locorum S. SCRIPTURE cum Terra? mobilitate 

 eonciliatio [PAULI ANTONII FOSCARINI] ; with front, of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus, 

 woodcuts, and diagrams, 4to. old vellum, with auto. * Le Clerc de Buffon, 1760 ' on title, 1. 5s 



Lugduni, 1641 



The second Latin translation. The above copy is especially interesting as having belonged to Buffon at the age of 23 

 (according to the above inscription), whose love for the study of natural science it 7iiay probably have powerfully 

 quickened. It also has an auto, of Buffon dated 1734, followed by that of his friend GUENEAU DE MONTH EIL LARD, pasted in. 



1412 EDITIO NOVA [cum INDICE, pp. 21]; with engraved title, and diagrams, 12mo. (pp.728), 

 old calf (one joint broken), }'2s Qd Londmi, 1663 



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



1443 EDITIO ALTERA ; accessit praeter conciliationem Locorurn S. Scrip turee cum Terrse Mobili- 

 tate, ejusdem TRACTATUS de Moru, nunc primum in Latinum versus ; with fine portrait and 

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

 damaged], 10s Qd Lugd. Batav., 1699 



This edition was unknown to Graesse, and contains the first Latin translation of the important ' Discorsi e dimostraxioai 

 matematiche . . . alia mecanica e ai moviinenti locali.' 



1444 DIFESA contro alle CALUNIE et IMPOSTURE di BALDASSAR CAPRA ; with diagrams, sm. 4to. 



sewn, 6s Bologna, 1655 



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



1445 _ DISCORSI e DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMATICHE, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alia 



MECANICA & i MOVIMENTI LOCALI, con una Appendice del centro di gravitk d' alcuni Solidi, 

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

 auto. ' Joa. Gottliebius Uberis, 1753' on obverse of title, and 2 library 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 the lirst 

 law of motion, his laws of falling bodies (the result of experiments made between 1602 and 1604), demonstrating the 

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

 laws of cohesion, etc. etc. 



1413 - Le OPERATIONI del COMPASSO GEOMETRICO, e MILITARE; with folding plate, woodcuts, 

 and numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. sewn, Qs Bologna, 1656 



Containing Galileo's invention of the circle of proportion. 



1447 - II SAGGIATORE, nel quale con Bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute 

 nella libra astronomica e filosonca 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, with bookplate of 

 Prince M. A. Borghese, 1. 10s Iloma, G. Mascardi, 1623 



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

 of crushing scientific criticism. 



1448 - SlDEREUS NUNCIUS, magna longeque admirabilia Spectacula pandens . . . quse sunt obsen- 

 ata in Luna^ Facie, tixis innumeris, Lacteo Circulo, Stellis Nebulosis, apprime vero in IV PLANETIS 

 CIRCA JOVJS STELLAM disparibus intervallis atque Periodis, celeritate mirabili circumvolutis ; 

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

 woodcuts and diagrams, sm. 8vo. sewn, Is Qd Londini, J. Flesher, 16o3 



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



1419 TRACTATUS de PROPORTIONUM INSTRUMENTO, quod merito compendium universac 



Geometries dixeris ; Lingua Latina conversus, adjectis Notis, quibus et artinciosa Instrnmenti 



fabrica, et usus ulterior exponitur [auctore MATTHIA BERNEGERRO], editio II. ; with folding plate, 



and numerous diagrams, sm. 4to. boards (a number of II. 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 ROBERTSON : POPULAR READINGS in 

 SCIENCE, illustrated, post 8vo. cl. (out of print), 2s (p. 4s) 1895 



