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LUSVERGH, Giacomo. Di Galileo Galilei il compasso geometrico adulto …. Nouamente stampato, e dato in luce da Domenico Lusuergh fabricatore d'istromenti matematici. Rome: Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1698.
12º (140 x 78mm). 7 folding engraved plates, errata leaf at end. (The larger folding plate with 70mm. tear in blank area repaired on verso, text browned, some waterstains, A5 rehinged, tear to A11 touching text on recto, verso with adhesive tape repair, D10-11 repaired at margin.) Contemporary vellum, spine in five compartments with raised bands, manuscript title in the second and penwork decoration in the third (corners a little bumped). Provenance: occasional marginalia in a contemporary hand – early note in another hand on rear pastedown – Alfredo Lancisi, 1765 (ownership inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION though, as Riccardi points out, this work has been regarded as a simple reprinting of Galileo’s Le operazioni del compass geometrico (1606). The larger folding plate illustrating the Galilean compass states that its maker is Domenico Lusvergh near the Collegium Romanum, Rome, in 1698. In the dedication and address to the reader, the instrument maker expresses gratitude to the priest Domenico di San Giuseppe, ‘huomo nelle facoltà Matematiche noto’ for contributing the explanations of its uses (published in Giacomo’s name). No sale recorded by RBH since 1971. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books I, p.509; Carli and Favaro 393; Cinti 165; Riccardi I(ii) 60.
12º (140 x 78mm). 7 folding engraved plates, errata leaf at end. (The larger folding plate with 70mm. tear in blank area repaired on verso, text browned, some waterstains, A5 rehinged, tear to A11 touching text on recto, verso with adhesive tape repair, D10-11 repaired at margin.) Contemporary vellum, spine in five compartments with raised bands, manuscript title in the second and penwork decoration in the third (corners a little bumped). Provenance: occasional marginalia in a contemporary hand – early note in another hand on rear pastedown – Alfredo Lancisi, 1765 (ownership inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION though, as Riccardi points out, this work has been regarded as a simple reprinting of Galileo’s Le operazioni del compass geometrico (1606). The larger folding plate illustrating the Galilean compass states that its maker is Domenico Lusvergh near the Collegium Romanum, Rome, in 1698. In the dedication and address to the reader, the instrument maker expresses gratitude to the priest Domenico di San Giuseppe, ‘huomo nelle facoltà Matematiche noto’ for contributing the explanations of its uses (published in Giacomo’s name). No sale recorded by RBH since 1971. BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books I, p.509; Carli and Favaro 393; Cinti 165; Riccardi I(ii) 60.
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