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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Opere. Bologna: Heirs of Dozza, 1656.
2 volumes, 4° (220 x 159mm.). Vol.II with the blank leaf preceding the general title. Engraved frontispiece (outer margin shaved with loss), portrait, one folding plate, woodcut illustrations and diagrams (tear in G6 in the second work in vol.II). Old calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Henry Edward Bunbury (bookplate, crest on spines).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The collation varies slightly from the copy noted by Cinti: the penultimate work in vol.I becomes the final work and the third of the four preliminary pages in this work is signed +2, the final work in vol.I in Cinci's copy becomes the first work in vol.II. Cinti 132; Riccardi I, 518. (2)
2 volumes, 4° (220 x 159mm.). Vol.II with the blank leaf preceding the general title. Engraved frontispiece (outer margin shaved with loss), portrait, one folding plate, woodcut illustrations and diagrams (tear in G6 in the second work in vol.II). Old calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Henry Edward Bunbury (bookplate, crest on spines).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The collation varies slightly from the copy noted by Cinti: the penultimate work in vol.I becomes the final work and the third of the four preliminary pages in this work is signed +2, the final work in vol.I in Cinci's copy becomes the first work in vol.II. Cinti 132; Riccardi I, 518. (2)