拍品 197
  • 197

GALILEO, LE OPERAZIONI DEL COMPASSO GEOMETRICO, ET MILITARE, PADUA, 1606, MODERN LEATHER

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60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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描述

  • Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, et militare. Padua: in the house of the author, by Pietro Marinelli, 1606
folio (285 x 193mm.), woodcut device of Marinelli on title-page, woodcut initials and diagrams, watermark of an open (i.e. unenclosed) Crossbow (in the middle of the sheet of N1, O2, P2, Q1, etc.), with cornermark of Three Mounts (outer margin of title, A2, B2, C1, etc; lower margin of D1, E1, F1, etc.), A2v with the letters "Oper.3." stamped by the printer later by hand, modern blind-tooled leather, modern folding buckram box, title-page with blank section to the right of the device replaced (possibly using paper from last leaf), lower blank corner of last leaf made-up with new paper, a few small paper repairs at outer margin of last few leaves

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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