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GALILEI, Galileo. Istoria e Dimonstrazioni Intorno alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti comprese in tre lettere scritte all' illustrissimo Signor Marco Velseri Linceo, Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1613. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (229 x 162mm.), woodcut device on title, engraved portrait of the author by Villamoena, 47 engraved diagrams in the text (lacks folding table, corner of portrait lightly stained, some mainly marginal spotting and staining, small hole in one diagram, small piece torn away from upper margin of B2, second part partially detached), contemporary vellum titled on the spine in manuscript (a few small stains), ties (defective), endpapers and pastedowns taken from waste sheets with pagination and headings, but without letterpress or illustration, bookplate (1). FIRST EDITION, WITH SCHEINER'S LETTERS TO WELSER. Cinti 44; Dawson 2587; Favaro 60; Riccardi I, 509; Waller 12046.
"First complete edition of this classic work, containing Galilei's observations on the sunspots and his discoveries relating to the rotation of the sun, and that of the earth round its axis. Further, the discovery of the Satellites of Jupiter is described (illustrated with 5 plates). In 1613 two issues were published of the book containing Part I only (up to p. 164), the other including Scheiner's letters. This latter remained unknown to Riccardi, is generally considered to be the rarer of the two, and certainly to be preferred, as it gives us the full story of these celebrated discoveries." (Dawson)
"First complete edition of this classic work, containing Galilei's observations on the sunspots and his discoveries relating to the rotation of the sun, and that of the earth round its axis. Further, the discovery of the Satellites of Jupiter is described (illustrated with 5 plates). In 1613 two issues were published of the book containing Part I only (up to p. 164), the other including Scheiner's letters. This latter remained unknown to Riccardi, is generally considered to be the rarer of the two, and certainly to be preferred, as it gives us the full story of these celebrated discoveries." (Dawson)
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