Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano

by Galileo Galilei

$120,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Florence: Giovanni Battista Landini, 1632. 4to. viii , 458, 32 pp. 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, woodcut initials, headpieces and diagrams; frontispiece repaired, possibly with a portion from another copy, lacking final blank. Bound in an early antiphonal leaf. A

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