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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) AND THOMAS SALUSBURY (CA. 1625-CA. 1665, EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR)
Mathematical Collections and Translations. London: William Leybourn, 1661. Volume I only in 2 parts, 2° (333 x 218mm). Half-title. 4 folding engraved plates, engraved diagrams. (Sections II-V of part I and the index bound after part 2, general title with 45mm. internal tear, one plate torn along fold, 3L4 holed with slight loss, 4M1 with piece torn from upper margin.) Contemporary calf with blind fillets (spine restored and with later gilt lettering, rear free endpaper renewed). Provenance: John Jackson of Academy Place, Warrington (1793-1875, bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF GALILEO'S DIALOGO, the major work to be included in volume I, and the first vernacular translation in any language. The System of the World, followed by the short but important Epistle to the Grand Dutchesse Mother concerning the Authority of Holy Scripture in Philosophical Controversies (known today as the Letter to Christina), was only the second work of Galileo's to be published in England. It preceded the Latin edition, published in London by Thomas Dicas, by two years and remained the only vernacular translation for two centuries. Apart from the two works by Galileo, Salusbury included 7 other translations from Italian and Latin in volume I of his Collections. The title-page to part two of volume I mis-states that it is 'the second tome', an obvious cause of confusion. However, the contents to both tome I and II are given on a preliminary leaf. Some copies also include an errata leaf following 3Z2 (not present here). The general title in this copy is a cancellans. The second volume, including an extensive life of Galileo in part two, was published in 1665 but almost totally destroyed in the great fire of London. Stillman Drake was able to trace just 8 copies containing part one of volume II. The Brereton-Macclesfield copy, sold by Sotheby's London, 26 October 2005, lot 1800, is unique in containing both parts. A typed copy letter from Stillman Drake to R.H. Hill, librarian at the National Central Library, loosely inserted in the Jackson-Warrington copy, is of interest for revealing that he was already in pursuit of it in 1956. By 1967, the date he published his 2-volume facsimile edition, successive searches of Shirburn castle had still not uncovered it. Wing S-517; not in Norman.
Mathematical Collections and Translations. London: William Leybourn, 1661. Volume I only in 2 parts, 2° (333 x 218mm). Half-title. 4 folding engraved plates, engraved diagrams. (Sections II-V of part I and the index bound after part 2, general title with 45mm. internal tear, one plate torn along fold, 3L4 holed with slight loss, 4M1 with piece torn from upper margin.) Contemporary calf with blind fillets (spine restored and with later gilt lettering, rear free endpaper renewed). Provenance: John Jackson of Academy Place, Warrington (1793-1875, bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF GALILEO'S DIALOGO, the major work to be included in volume I, and the first vernacular translation in any language. The System of the World, followed by the short but important Epistle to the Grand Dutchesse Mother concerning the Authority of Holy Scripture in Philosophical Controversies (known today as the Letter to Christina), was only the second work of Galileo's to be published in England. It preceded the Latin edition, published in London by Thomas Dicas, by two years and remained the only vernacular translation for two centuries. Apart from the two works by Galileo, Salusbury included 7 other translations from Italian and Latin in volume I of his Collections. The title-page to part two of volume I mis-states that it is 'the second tome', an obvious cause of confusion. However, the contents to both tome I and II are given on a preliminary leaf. Some copies also include an errata leaf following 3Z2 (not present here). The general title in this copy is a cancellans. The second volume, including an extensive life of Galileo in part two, was published in 1665 but almost totally destroyed in the great fire of London. Stillman Drake was able to trace just 8 copies containing part one of volume II. The Brereton-Macclesfield copy, sold by Sotheby's London, 26 October 2005, lot 1800, is unique in containing both parts. A typed copy letter from Stillman Drake to R.H. Hill, librarian at the National Central Library, loosely inserted in the Jackson-Warrington copy, is of interest for revealing that he was already in pursuit of it in 1956. By 1967, the date he published his 2-volume facsimile edition, successive searches of Shirburn castle had still not uncovered it. Wing S-517; not in Norman.
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