Florence: Landini, 1632. First edition; all of the errata found on the errata leaf have been meticulously corrected in the text by the owner, who in assembling the volume discarded the errata leaf and added the additional texts as detailed below. The frontispiece is an excellent early impression with rich..... More
Item #5082
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
Strasbourg; Leiden: Elzevier; Elzevier, 1636; 1638. First edition of a great Galilean rarity, the Nov-Antiqua or ‘Letter to Christina’, with the first edition of his most important work, the Discorsi, together in a magnificent contemporary armorial binding executed for the Archbishop of Reims. The Nov-Antiqua is a “superb manifesto of..... More
Item #4995
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
London: Jacob Flesher for William Morden, 1653. First edition of this collection, comprising the first printing in England of each of these texts; this is the second edition of Gassendi (first, Paris 1647), the third of Galileo (after Venice and Frankfurt, 1610), and the second of Kepler (first, Augsburg 1611)..... More
Item #5015