Galilei, Galileo. DIALOGO... DOVE NE I CONGRESSI DI QUATTRO GIORNATE SI DISCORRE SOPRA I DUE MASSIMI SISTEMI DEL MONDO TOLEMAICO, E COPERNICANO. FLORENCE: GIOVANNI BATTISTA LANDINI, 1632 4to (215 x 164mm.), first edition, engraved frontispiece by Stefano della Bella depicting Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus in discussion surmounted by the Medici arms, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, headpieces and diagrams, with the cancel slip on p.92, contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, in modern morocco-backed black buckram folding box, frontispiece reattached and with small repaired tear, title-page browned, other occasional slight browning, small paper flaw in G2 with loss of a letter, K4 torn and repaired (affecting text), without final blank, a few small wormholes in binding
Galilei, Galileo. DIALOGO... DOVE NE I CONGRESSI DI QUATTRO GIORNATE SI DISCORRE SOPRA I DUE MASSIMI SISTEMI DEL MONDO TOLEMAICO, E COPERNICANO. FLORENCE: GIOVANNI BATTISTA LANDINI, 1632 4to (215 x 164mm.), first edition, engraved frontispiece by Stefano della Bella depicting Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus in discussion surmounted by the Medici arms, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, headpieces and diagrams, with the cancel slip on p.92, contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, in modern morocco-backed black buckram folding box, frontispiece reattached and with small repaired tear, title-page browned, other occasional slight browning, small paper flaw in G2 with loss of a letter, K4 torn and repaired (affecting text), without final blank, a few small wormholes in binding
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