Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 262

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
GALILEI, GALILEO. Systema cosmicum . . . in quo quatuor dialogis de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano . . . disseritur. Woodcut text diagrams. [16], 495, [25] pages, including engraved additional title, portrait of Galileo, and errata leaf at end. bound with his: Tractatus de proportionum instrumento. Woodcut text diagrams. [8], 104 pages; lacks the folding plate. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, 193x146 mm, contemporary vellum boards panelled in blind, rear cover discolored, recased, endpapers renewed; contents of both works lightly toned with scattered marginal spotting, occasional light marginal soiling, additional title and portrait in first work cropped in outer and lower margins, additional title also worn along edges, small paper flaw in blank lower margin of letterpress title, early marginalia on a3v, underscoring in ink on 2F1, dampstaining in lower outer corner throughout the second work. Strassburg: David Hautt for Elzevier, 1635; David Hautt, 1635

Additional Details

first edition in latin of Galileo's 1632 dialogue proving the validity of the Copernican heliocentric theory, bound with the second edition of his 1612 treatise on the sector or proportional compass and its use as a calculating instrument. Grolier/Horblit 18c; Printing and the Mind of Man 128 (Italian original edition of the first work); Willems 426 (this edition); Riccardi I, 512, 507.