Florence [actually Naples]: N. p., 1710. First edition, very rare large-paper copy, of the second vernacular edition of Galileo’s famous Dialogo sopra i massimi sistemi del mondo (a page-by-page reprint of the first edition). The Dialogo is Galileo’s celebrated defence of the Copernican view of the solar system. Written in..... More
Item #5281

Leiden: Elzevier, 1638. First edition, a fine copy in untouched contemporary vellum, of Galileo’s last and most important work, “the first modern textbook of physics, a foundation stone in the science of mechanics” (Grolier/Horblit); the ‘two new sciences’ were the engineering science of strength of materials and the mathematical science of..... More
Item #4985

Frankfurt: [Zacharias] Palthenius, 1610; 1611. Second edition of Galileo’s magnum opus, published just a few months after the original printing at Venice on March 10, 1610. “Galileo’s book created excitement throughout Europe and a second edition was published in the same year at Frankfurt” (DSB). This pirate edition of Sidereus..... More
Item #5062