Systema Cosmicum In Quo Dialogis Iv De Duobus Maximis Mundi Systematibus Ptolemaico Copernicano

by Galileo Galilei Matthias Bernegger Johannes Kepler

$20,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Lugduni Lyon : Joannis Antonii Huguetan Jean-Antoine Huguetan , 1641. The second Latin edition of Galileo's epochal book arguing for a heliocentric understanding of the universe. Small quarto, *-**4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Ddd4. xvi , 378, 21 pp. Bound in full black morocco with yapps, laced in boards, gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt. Near Fine with very light wear to covers, skillful repair to upper end of front joint.

• Binding: Leather

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