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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Il saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella libra astronomica e filosofica di Lotario Sarsi Sigensano. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.
4° (212 x 158mm). Engraved title-page, portrait of Galileo, woodcut initials and headpiece, vignette, engraved diagrams in text. With 4 leaves of preliminary verses absent from some issues and extra leaf of errata printed on both sides at end of volume, errata slip pasted to final leaf taken from another copy. (Light dampstain to a1, some quires browned, more prominently towards end of volume.) Early vellum, yapp edges, title in early manuscript to spine (recased).
FIRST EDITION, FOURTH ISSUE, with the preliminary verses (often absent) and the long list of errata included on an extra leaf bound in at the end of the work. Carli-Favaro 21 (95); Cinti 153 (73); Norman I 309 (857); Riccardi I 511.
4° (212 x 158mm). Engraved title-page, portrait of Galileo, woodcut initials and headpiece, vignette, engraved diagrams in text. With 4 leaves of preliminary verses absent from some issues and extra leaf of errata printed on both sides at end of volume, errata slip pasted to final leaf taken from another copy. (Light dampstain to a1, some quires browned, more prominently towards end of volume.) Early vellum, yapp edges, title in early manuscript to spine (recased).
FIRST EDITION, FOURTH ISSUE, with the preliminary verses (often absent) and the long list of errata included on an extra leaf bound in at the end of the work. Carli-Favaro 21 (95); Cinti 153 (73); Norman I 309 (857); Riccardi I 511.
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