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London: Thomas Dicas for D. Pauli, 1663. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 8vo (169 x 107 mm). [24], 704 (i.e. 702), [24] pp., including engraved additional title, woodcut diagrams in text, blank leaves [A]1 (signed "A" on recto) and [A]8, 12 leaves of index at end. Signatures: [A]8, B-3A8. Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands, compartments lettered and decorated in gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, covers stained, corners scuffed, original endpapers). Light browning of text, occasional minor spotting, a few short clean tears to blank margins, some rust spots, two with small hole affecting a few letters (leaves I6 and S6). Provenance: Library stamp partially removed from verso of title. Still very good copy. ---- Carli and Favaro 287; Cinti 140; Riccardi I, 513.10; Wing G-168 & 165. FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN ENGLAND, and the third Latin edition of the Dialogo. Wing notes two printings of this year, but… Read More

Strasbourg: D. Hauttius for the Elzevirs [at Leiden], 1635. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 8vo (194 x 150 mm), [xvi], 495 [1], [24] pp. Engraved frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait by Jacob van der Heyden, woodcut diagrams, final leaf of errata. Text browned throughout as usual, leaves O3 and 3Q2 with small paper flaw at top blank margin, a few small marginal dampstains and occasional minor spotting. Bound in contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, ties still present (light browning and spotting of vellum), original endpapers. Provenance: illegible 19th-century ownership slip laid in. Very good unsophisticated copy in completely untouched original binding with old (original?) leather ties still present. ---- Honeyman 1409; Horblit 18c, Dibner 8; Carli-Favaro 32 (148); Caspar 11 (88); Cinti 196 (96); Riccardi I 512. - First Latin and first international edition of Galileo's enormously influential Dialogo demonstrating the… Read More

[Leiden &] Strassburg: David Hautt for Elzevir, 1635. First edition. FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE DIALOGO . First Latin edition of the Dialogo, Galileo's celebrated defence of the Copernican view of the solar system, the most notorious banned book of the 17th century. Written in dialogue form, it "was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence ... it is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, wilfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics ... The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace" (PMM). "The Dialogo, far more than any work, convinced men of the truth of the Copernican system" (Gingerich). Pope Urban VIII was not persuaded, however, and… Read More

Strasbourg: Daniel Elzevir and David Hautt, 1635-1636. First Latin edition of Systema Cosmicum and first edition of Nov-antiqua. Very Good. Three works in one volume. Quarto (22 cm); Systema cosmicum: [16], 495, [24] pages, including engraved title page, portrait and illustrations, Augustae Treboc[corum] [i.e., Strasbourg] : impensis Elzeviriorum, typis Davidis Hautti, 1635; Nov-antiqua: [8], 60 [4] pages, text printed in Latin and Italian in parallel columns, Augustae Treboc [corum], impensis Elzevirorum, typis Davidis Huatti, 1636; Tractatus: [8], 104 pages [lacks plate], Argentorati, typis Davidis Hautti, 1635. In early19th-century scarlet-dyed sheep uniquely embossed across the grain with rows of a toothed pattern, with gilt scroll border composed of interlocking fleurons and spine decorated and titled direct in gilt. Preserved in red cloth chemise and red cloth slipcase with 1/4 polished leather titled in gilt. Bookplate of Joannis De Bizzaro, and a manuscript note in Italian on first… Read More