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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Considerazioni al Tasso. Rome: Pagliarini, 1793. 4° (294 x 224mm). Woodcut device on title. (Wormtrack at head of title and next leaf, worming to lower margins of early leaves with resultant tear to one leaf crudely repaired on verso.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Galileo's posthumously published polemical attack on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. A well-margined copy. Carli and Favaro 615; Cinti 180; Riccardi I, 524.24.
GALILEI, G. Considerazioni al Tasso. Venice: Sebastian Valle, 1793. 12° (189 x 101mm). Uncut in original half vellum and marbled boards, leather label on spine. Provenance: a bishop or a cardinal (title stamp). First pocket edition, printed in Venice. Carli and Favaro 616; Cinti 181; Riccardi I, 524.25. (2)
GALILEI, G. Considerazioni al Tasso. Venice: Sebastian Valle, 1793. 12° (189 x 101mm). Uncut in original half vellum and marbled boards, leather label on spine. Provenance: a bishop or a cardinal (title stamp). First pocket edition, printed in Venice. Carli and Favaro 616; Cinti 181; Riccardi I, 524.25. (2)
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