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have sold another 2000 had the book not been banned. On the other hand,
Bernegger suggested printing only 600 copies of the Latin edition, ‘the subject
matter being to the taste of few’ (Westman p. 338).
In addition to Galileo’s text there is a preface by Bernegger; an index (there
was no index in the original); an extract from Kepler’s introduction to his
Astronomia nova and the Wrst Latin edition of Paolo Antonio Foscarini, Sopra
l’opinione de’ Pittagorici, e del Copernico. Della mobilita’ della terra, e stabilita’ del
sole, e del nuovo Pittagorico sistema del mondo (Naples, 1615: the Latin edition
in 1615, sometimes referred to, is a ghost, see Carli–Favoro). Foscarini’s work
was appended to subsequent editions of the Dialogo.
Willems comments that ‘L’impression et le papier sont des plus médiocres’.
The paper is susceptible to rather heavy browning, but in this copy at least the
index and the prelims are printed on better paper and are not browned, so that
the engraved and printed titles and the portrait of Galileo are not aVected.
Robert Westman, ‘The reception of Galileo’s Dialogue: a Partial World Census of
Extant Copies’, In Paolo Galluzzi, ed., Novita celesti e crisi del sapere (Florence,
1984) 329–72. The Wrst edition is Dibner, Heralds of Science 8; Horblit, One Hundred
Books Famous in Science 18c; Printing and the Mind of Man 128; and Sparrow,
Milestones of Science 74.
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GALILEI, Galileo (1564–1642)
Dialogo... sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo... in questa
seconda impressione accresciuto di una Lettera dello stesso, non più
stampata, e di vari trattati di più autori, i quali si veggono nel Wne del
libro... in Fiorenza, MDCCX.
Naples: [no publisher’s name], 1710.
4to: 6
* A–2E8 2F4 2G2 (–2G2); §–4§4; a–k4 l2 (–L2), 292 leaves,
pp. [12] 458; [32]; 83 (i.e. 81, last page misnumbered) [1] (last page
blank). Title printed in red and black with engraved device; sectional
title on 4§4 with woodcut device. Woodcut diagrams in the text.
225 x 171mm. Some light foxing, mostly insigniWcant but becoming
heavier in a few gatherings.
Binding: Contemporary vellum boards, red morocco lettering piece
(probably added later), green sprinkled page edges. Soiled and rubbed.
Provenance: Several early shelf marks on endleaves and a bookseller’s
price £80.
Second Italian edition (Wrst 1632). Carli–Favoro 413; Cinti 168; Riccardi
I, i, col. 512.
The second edition in the original Italian of Galileo’s Dialogo published
in1632 and condemned by the Inquisition in 1634. In the following year a
Latin edition was published at Amsterdam (see above), but it was another 75
years before this second Italian edition appeared, surreptitiously printed at
Naples with a false Florence imprint and no publisher’s name. The dedication
to Carlo CaraVa Pacecco is signed by Lorenzo Ciccarelli. Galileo’s name