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CATALOGUE DE LIVRES RARES FINE BOOKS - Camille Sourget

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First edition of Galileo’s famous defense of the Copernican solar system, published in Florence<br />

in 1632 and placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Inquisition as early as August 1632.<br />

The present edition is illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Stefano della Bella and 31<br />

woodcuts in the text.<br />

A precious well preserved and wide margined copy (height: 226 mm compared to 218 mm for<br />

Frielander’s copy), bound in contemporary ivory vellum without any restoration.

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