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Florence, Jacopo Guiducci, 1715.. FIRST EDITION 1715, small 4to, approximately 265 x 190 mm, 10½ x 7½ inches, Italian text, engraved portrait frontispiece after Pietro Anichini, printer's engraved device on title page, 3 small text woodcuts, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Pages: [4], v- xlix, [1], 1-96, including half-title, LACKING IMPRIMATUR LEAF C10, bound in later stiff vellum with yapp edges, gilt lettered and decorated black morocco label, edges untrimmed. Vellum faintly marked and faded, 2 small light stains to lower cover, top edges dusty, strip of pale browning and faint damp staining to few upper margins of various sizes, affecting first 30 pages, not affecting printed area, tiny pale stain to 1 lower margin, otherwise contents clean and crisp. A very good copy. 12 posthumously published lectures by Galileo's successor as Professor of Mathematicsa at Florence, delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino, and the Academy of Drawing. The lectures mainly concern… Read More

Florence: Nella Stamper. di S. A. R. Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (250 x 180 mm). xlix [1], 96, [2] pp. Half title, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, engraved portrait of the author after Pietro Anichini, imprimatur leaf bound at the end, woodcut initials and ornaments, 3 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp vellum, spine with hand lettering in ink and printed shelf-mark paper label (minor worming to board edges, spotting and dust soiling of vellum, head of spine chipped). Text crisp and clean with only very minor occasional spotting, ink smudge to title verso. Provenance: Avvocato Ferrara, Biblioteca Mario Dotti (paper label to front pastedown and foot of spine), cancelled old ownership inscription on final flyleaf. A fine, unpressed copy in contemporary Italian binding. ---- FIRST EDITION of these twelve posthumously-published lectures delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino… Read More