8 LETTERS BY GALILEI PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME

PIERALISI, SANTE. - GALILEO GALILEI.

Breve Discorso sella Instituzione di un Principe e Compendio della Scienza civile di Francesco Piccolomini. Com Otto Lettere e Nove Disegne delle Macchie Solari di Galileo Galilei, pubblicata la prima volta [first printing of eight letters by Galilei and new drawings of the sunspots].

Roma, TipografiaSalviucci, 1858. Lex 8vo. Original printed boards. Upper part of spine replaced, with title written in hand, Wear along upper part of front hinge, otherwise fine, with just a bit of soiling and some fading to the delicate pink colour. Some occasional brownspotting. (12), VI, 216 pp. + 9 plates (depicting sunspots).

The very rare first edition of this beautifully printed work, which is a treatise on the work of Piccolomini to which is added 8 hitherto unpublished letters from Galilei, from the years1619-24, here published for the first time. Furthermore we here have 9 plates made after drawings by Galilei to document his observations of sunspots between the 3rd and 11th of May 1612.

Order-nr.: 43334