Shelfmark
Gb.4.09-10
Author
Title
Opere di Galileo Galilei linceo nobile fiorentino Già lettore delle Matematiche nelle Vniuersita di Pisa, e di Padoua, di poi Sopraordinario nello Studio di Posa. Primario Filososo, e Matematico del Serenissimo Gran Duca di Toscana.
Varying form of title
Opere di Galileo Galilei linceo nobile fiorentino Già lettore delle Matematiche nelle Uniuersita di Pisa, e di Padoua, di poi Sopraordinario nello Studio di Posa. Primario Filososo, e Matematico del Serenissimo Gran Duca di Toscana
Publication, distribution, etc.
In Bologna : Per gli HH. del Dozza, MDCLVI [1656].
Physical description
19 pt in 2 vol. ([24], 29-32, 48, 48, [8], 160, [4], 68, 127, [5], 264, 43, [1]; 60, 7, 105, [3], 105-156, 48, [8], 179, [3], 53-106, [2], 103-126, [6], 238, [6]p) : ill. ; 23cm. (4to).
Note
Previously: De.6.19-20.
Note
Dedication signed: Carlo Manolessi.
Note
Allegorical frontispiece by S. della Bella; port. signed: F. Villamoena.
Note
Printer's device with motto "Nouus exorior" on collective title-page; most of the special title-pages have woodcut fleur de lys vignette (device?); initials; head and tail pieces; marginal notes.
Note
Each of the 19 parts has special title-page and for the most part separate pagination and register; a half-title reading "Opere del Galileo volume primo [-secondo]" is prefixed to each volume, that to v. 1 having Galileo's port. on verso facing the first special title-page In addition, there is a preliminary half-title leaf to vol. 1 reading "Opere del Galileo". Special titlepages in v. 2 and all but the first in vol. 1 dated 1655.
Note
Chiefly in Italian, with some sections in Latin.
Note
With woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout.
Note
Includes index and errata.
Citation/references note
Carli, A. Bib. Galileiana, 251; BL Italian, 17th cent., p. 372
Provenance
Book-label of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Binding
17th century white vellum; sewn on seven cords; yapp edges.
Subject
Mathematics Early works to 1800.
Subject
Physics Early works to 1800.
Subject
Astronomy Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Della Bella, Stefano, 1610 - 1664 Illustrator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Heredi di Evangelista Dozza Printer.
Added entry--place
France Boulogne.
Language code
ita lat
Identifier
B19517