Galilei, Galileo

OPERE DI GALILEO GALILEI NOBILE FIORENTINO [THREE VOLUMES]

Firenze [Florence]: Gio. Gaetano Tartini, e Santi Franchi, 1718. Second Edition. Quartos, 3 volumes; VG; bound in contemporary full vellum, leather labels to heads of spines, remnants of newer labels to tails of spines, small ink writing to spines; mild soiling and wear to vellum; bindings with very subtle and hidden restoration, not visible from outside, with the exception of newer head/tail bands; 'B. Jankovich' ownership stamp to title pages, rear endpaper of volume 2; frontispiece bound in at Lvi; vol 2 ii4 with small hole from thin paper, pp4 with small repair to closed tear; [6], viii, viii-cxii, 628, [2], [8], 722, [1], [4], 484, [4], [48]; with 19 full page engravings, 1 folding plate of Galileo's compass, which remained unsurpassed until the advent of the slide rule in the mid-nineteenth century.; shelved case 3.

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NOTES

The Second Edition, which also serves as the first complete edition of Galileo's works. The added works are mostly contained in volume 3. While called complete, it does not contain the two works listed on the Index Prohibitorum.