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Galilei (Galileo) Opere...,Nuova Edizione, 3 vol., edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri, half-titles, vol.I with additional title printed in red & black with engraved allegorical device for Florence, engraved portrait of the author, folding engraved plate, numerous diagrams and illustrations, woodcut decorations and initials, light ink stain to head of half-title and additional title in vol.I, 1 f. with section of loss to lower margin, otherwise internally very good, bookplate of St. Bernard's Seminary Library on each front pastedown, contemporary vellum, [Houzeau & Lancaster 3386; Riccardi I 520], 4to, Florence, Tartini Giovanni Gaetano and Santi Franchi, 1718.
***The first two volumes largely reproduce the material collected by Manolessi in the first edition and this edition is still without the two banned works. The third volume is devoted to previously unpublished material, including a number of letters of Galileo, and notes on his work by Castelli and Viviani..
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