![GUALTEROTTI, Raffaello (1543-1638). Scherzi degli spiriti animali dettati con l'occasione de l'oscurazione de l'anno 1605. [Bound with:] Discorso di Raffael' Gualterotti gentilhuomo fiorentino. Sopra l'apparizione de la nuova stella. Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1605.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12140_0528_000(gualterotti_raffaello_scherzi_degli_spiriti_animali_dettati_con_loccas093753).jpg?w=1)
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GUALTEROTTI, Raffaello (1543-1638). Scherzi degli spiriti animali dettati con l'occasione de l'oscurazione de l'anno 1605. [Bound with:] Discorso di Raffael' Gualterotti gentilhuomo fiorentino. Sopra l'apparizione de la nuova stella. Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1605.
8° (206 x 145mm). Woodcut devices on titles. (Second work with small stain on title and following leaf, some browning, waterstaining and marginal holes to final leaves.) Later vellum and spine label, new endpapers. Provenance: neat pencil inscription on title of first work.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS of Gualterotti’s accounts of the events following the observation of the 1605 comet. Only two copies recorded in ABPC/RBH since the 1950s. Raffaello Gualterotti is better known for his 1579 illustrated edition of Feste nelle nozze Del Serenissimo Don Francesco Medici Gran Duca di Toscana and to have discussed with Galileo an instrument similar to the telescope after the publication of Sidereus Nuncius (1610).
8° (206 x 145mm). Woodcut devices on titles. (Second work with small stain on title and following leaf, some browning, waterstaining and marginal holes to final leaves.) Later vellum and spine label, new endpapers. Provenance: neat pencil inscription on title of first work.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS of Gualterotti’s accounts of the events following the observation of the 1605 comet. Only two copies recorded in ABPC/RBH since the 1950s. Raffaello Gualterotti is better known for his 1579 illustrated edition of Feste nelle nozze Del Serenissimo Don Francesco Medici Gran Duca di Toscana and to have discussed with Galileo an instrument similar to the telescope after the publication of Sidereus Nuncius (1610).
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