GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, b. 1618]. Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, b. 1618]. Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656. 12 o (130 x 72 mm). Engraved title-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, tables in text, two letterpress folding tables and two engraved folding plates (the first just shaved along left edge), caption title for Prattiche astronomiche . With errata leaf and blank at end. Contemporary Roman gold-tooled vellum, presumably for presentation, corners with fan-shaped device, an archbishop's arms at center of each side, smooth spine gilt, edges gilt (lacking ties); white calf folding case. FIRST EDITION OF THIS EARLY WORK BY GALILEO, written in the 1590s but published posthumously. The text originates in lectures given by Galileo at Padua in the late 1590s. The subject of these lectures was probably Sacrobosco's De Sphaera , the most common teaching tool on astronomy at that time; it is unsurprising, therefore, that in this text Galileo adhered to the conventional Ptolemaic model, as described by Sacrobosco, in which a static earth is orbited by the sun and other planets. The editor of this volume was Urbano D'Aviso, whose name appears in an anagram on the title-page. One of the rarest of Galileo's works: UK copies in BL and National Library of Wales only, Worldcat lists 4 copies in the USA. According to American Book Prices Current , only two copies have sold at auction since 1975. This copy conforms to the collation in Cinti, with a frontispiece, 2 folding tables and 2 engraved plates (though he locates both plates at end, unlike in this copy). The copy at the Library of Congress is bound with the same tooling, with a different archbishop's arms. Carli-Favaro 60 (252); Cinti 264 (133); De Caro 33; S. Drake, Galileo at Work , Chicago 1978, 51-55; S. Drake, Essays on Galileo , ed. N.M. Swerdlow and T.H. Levere, 3 vols, Toronto 1999, I, 67; Riccardi I:398 (" assai raro"). A SUPERB COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY ROMAN PRESENTATION BINDING.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, b. 1618]. Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Buonardo SAVI [Urbano D'AVISO, b. 1618]. Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei con alcune prattiche intorno a quella, e modo di fare la figura celeste, e suoi direttioni, secondo la via rationale . Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, for Domenico Grialdi, 1656. 12 o (130 x 72 mm). Engraved title-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, tables in text, two letterpress folding tables and two engraved folding plates (the first just shaved along left edge), caption title for Prattiche astronomiche . With errata leaf and blank at end. Contemporary Roman gold-tooled vellum, presumably for presentation, corners with fan-shaped device, an archbishop's arms at center of each side, smooth spine gilt, edges gilt (lacking ties); white calf folding case. FIRST EDITION OF THIS EARLY WORK BY GALILEO, written in the 1590s but published posthumously. The text originates in lectures given by Galileo at Padua in the late 1590s. The subject of these lectures was probably Sacrobosco's De Sphaera , the most common teaching tool on astronomy at that time; it is unsurprising, therefore, that in this text Galileo adhered to the conventional Ptolemaic model, as described by Sacrobosco, in which a static earth is orbited by the sun and other planets. The editor of this volume was Urbano D'Aviso, whose name appears in an anagram on the title-page. One of the rarest of Galileo's works: UK copies in BL and National Library of Wales only, Worldcat lists 4 copies in the USA. According to American Book Prices Current , only two copies have sold at auction since 1975. This copy conforms to the collation in Cinti, with a frontispiece, 2 folding tables and 2 engraved plates (though he locates both plates at end, unlike in this copy). The copy at the Library of Congress is bound with the same tooling, with a different archbishop's arms. Carli-Favaro 60 (252); Cinti 264 (133); De Caro 33; S. Drake, Galileo at Work , Chicago 1978, 51-55; S. Drake, Essays on Galileo , ed. N.M. Swerdlow and T.H. Levere, 3 vols, Toronto 1999, I, 67; Riccardi I:398 (" assai raro"). A SUPERB COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY ROMAN PRESENTATION BINDING.
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