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GALILEI, Galileo.

Opere. In questa nuova editione insieme raccolte, e di varii Trattati dell'istesso Autore non piu Stampati accresciute.

Bologna: Heirs of Evangelista Dozza, 1655.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002738

1655-1656. 4to (220 x 160 mm). [24], 29-32, 1-48; [2] 3-48; [8], 1-160; [4], 1-68; [2] 3-127 [1]; [4], 1-264; [2] 3-43 [1] pp.; [4], [2] 3-60; [3] 4-7 [1], 1-105, [3], 105-156; [1] 2-48, [2], 53-106, [2], 103-126; [8], 179 [1]; [8], 238 [i.e. 242], [6] pp. Including the first blank in vol. II, half-title to each vol., divisional titles to each part; allegorical frontispiece by Stefano Della Bella, engraved portrait of Galileo by F. Villamoena and folding engraved plate in vol. I, numerous woodcut initials, illustrations and diagrams in text. Bound in uniform 18th century half calf over marbled boards, flat spines with gilt ruling and gilt-lettered red morocco labels, red-sprinkled edges (rebacked preserving original spine leather, some rubbing, edge wear with paper chipping). Minor uneven browning of text with extent depending of paper used in gatherings, vol. II with light waterstaining to fore-margin, occasional minor spotting; Risposta with small hole in leaf A1 affecting few letters, two repaired clean tears in leaf H2 obscuring page number recto, repaired clean tear and a hole in upper blank margin of 2F3; leaf P1 of Istoria trimmed close at top just touching headline; Il Saggiatore with paper repair to lower corner of leaf E1 affecting catchword on recto and small hole in P1 costing two letters verso; lower corner of leaf T2 of discorsi brown-stained and chipped without loss of text. Provenance: Congregazione dell'Oratorio di San Filippo Neri Bologna (partly cancelled ink stamp on title and a few further pages), blind stamps to a few text pages and plate. The set is collated and complete. ----

Cinti 132; Riccardi I, 518; Houzeau -Lancaster I, 3386; Honeyman 1418; Roller -G. I, 433; Wellcome III, 83. FIRST EDITION of Galileo's collected works, edited by Carlo Manolessi and dedicated to Grand Duke Ferdinand II. According to Riccardi it contains a number of pieces here published for the first time. Most of these are letters to various friends and opponents, discussing questions raised by his published works. Both The Dialogo and Letter to Christiana are listed on the index 'librorum prohibitorum' and were thus not included in the Opere. Copies as here with all parts listed by Cinti, are quite rare, because the first buyer arranged the selection of parts as he desired.
Content: Vol. I: 1. Lettera di Maffeo Barberini sequita dalla Advlatio perniciosa; Le operationi, del compasso geometrico e militare di Galileo Galilei; 2. Annotationi di Mattia Bernaggeri [sic] soptr ̂nstrumento delle proportioni del sig. Galileo Galilei; 3. Usus et fabrica circini cuiusdam proportionis, per quem omnia . . . problemata facili negotio resoluuntur. Ppera et studio Balthasaris Capre . . . explicata; 4. Difesa di Galileo Galilei . . . Contro alle calunie & imposture di Baldessar Capra. . .; 5. Discorso. . . intorno alle cose, che stanno sù l'acqua, ò che in quella si muouono. Di Galileo Galilei. . .; 6. Discorso apologetico di Lodovico dell Colombe, d'intorno al Discorso del S. Galileo Gallei, circa le cose, che stanno sù l'acqua. . .; 7. Risposta alle oppositioni del sig. Lodovico delle Columbe e del sig. Vincenzo di Gratia, contro al trattato del. sig. Galileo, Galelei, dell cose che stanno sù l'acqua. . .; 8. Della scienza mechanic . . . o[n]pera del signor Galileo Galilei . . . La bilancetta del signore Galileo Galilei. . .
Vol. II: 9. Sydereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia specula pandens. . .; 10. Continuatione del Nuntio sidereo di Galileo Galilei linceo. . .; 11. Istoria e dimostrationi intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. . .; 12. De tribus cometis anni M. DC. XVIII, disputatio astronomica. . .; 13. Discorso delle comete di Mario Guiducci; 14. Lettera al. . . Tarquinio Galluzzi, . . . di Mario Guiducci. . .; 15. Lettere del sig. Galileo Galilei al padre Christoforo Grienberger, . . .; 16. Il Saggiatore. . . dal signor Galileo Galilei; Discorsi e Dimostrationi matematiche. . .; 17. Discorsi, e dimostrationi matematiche . . . del signor Galileo Galilei. - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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