![MEMMO, Giovanni Maria (d. 1553). Tre libri della sostanza et forma del mondo … Ne quali per modo di dialogo si disputano molte acutissime questioni. Venice: [Giovani Griffio] per Giovanni de Farri & fratelli, 1545.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0145_000(memmo_giovanni_maria_tre_libri_della_sostanza_et_forma_del_mondo_ne_qu043120).jpg?w=1)
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MEMMO, Giovanni Maria (d. 1553). Tre libri della sostanza et forma del mondo … Ne quali per modo di dialogo si disputano molte acutissime questioni. Venice: [Giovani Griffio] per Giovanni de Farri & fratelli, 1545.
4° (205 x 148mm). Griffio’s woodcut device on title, woodcut geometrical diagrams, one 12-line opening initial and others smaller. With final blank. (Title and preliminaries lightly soiled and stained, some subsequent browning and spotting, mainly marginal.) 17th-century vellum, gilt-lettered spine (minor marks). Provenance: F. Mariani of the Carmelite order 1738 (inscriptions at foot of title and on final verso) – Sigismund Freiherr von Moll (bookplate).
A ‘RARE AND LITTLE KNOWN WORK’ (Riccardi). The author is credited with belief in a heliocentric system, though he had certainly not heard of Copernicus at the time he wrote his partly astronomical, partly philosophical treatise. This takes the form of two dialogues with his sage uncle Giovan Battista Memmo, the first dedicated to Charles V of Austria, the second to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the emperor’s representative in Venice. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, one of two issues with differences in the publisher’s device and make-up of the final quire. Riccardi observes that the beauty of the type recalls the Aldine editions. BL/STC Italian Books p.433; Honeyman 2202; Houzeau and Lancaster 2512; Riccardi I(ii) 148.
4° (205 x 148mm). Griffio’s woodcut device on title, woodcut geometrical diagrams, one 12-line opening initial and others smaller. With final blank. (Title and preliminaries lightly soiled and stained, some subsequent browning and spotting, mainly marginal.) 17th-century vellum, gilt-lettered spine (minor marks). Provenance: F. Mariani of the Carmelite order 1738 (inscriptions at foot of title and on final verso) – Sigismund Freiherr von Moll (bookplate).
A ‘RARE AND LITTLE KNOWN WORK’ (Riccardi). The author is credited with belief in a heliocentric system, though he had certainly not heard of Copernicus at the time he wrote his partly astronomical, partly philosophical treatise. This takes the form of two dialogues with his sage uncle Giovan Battista Memmo, the first dedicated to Charles V of Austria, the second to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the emperor’s representative in Venice. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, one of two issues with differences in the publisher’s device and make-up of the final quire. Riccardi observes that the beauty of the type recalls the Aldine editions. BL/STC Italian Books p.433; Honeyman 2202; Houzeau and Lancaster 2512; Riccardi I(ii) 148.
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