1718 GALILEO GALILEI 3 volumes OPERE illustrated VELLUM BOUND antique SCARCE

img{max-width:100%} Opere di Galileo Galilei Nobele Florentino Accademico LinceoGIA LETTORE DELLE MATEMATICHE NELLE VNIUERSITA DI PISA, E DI PADOUA, DI POI SOPRAORDINARIO NELLO STUDIO DI PISA. PRIMARIO FILOSOFO, E MATEMATICO DEL SERENISSIMO GRAN DUCA DI TOSCANA.Florence, Per Gio. Gaetano Tartini, e Santi Franchi; 17183 volumes. Vol. 1: cxii 628 [i.e. 644] pp. Portrait of Galileo and a folded plate. Vol. 2: [viii] 722 [2] pp. Vol. 3: [vi] 484 [52] pp. Second collective edition of Galilei's Opere , edited by Tommaso Bonaventura. The first two volumes replicate with some additions the same texts of the Bologna edition of 1655-1656, while the third volume contains a series of unpublished writings, including the treatise on probability "On the discovery of dice". With engraved frontispiece portrait of Galileo, engraved vignette with view of Florence on first title page; with title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, numerous woodcut diagrams, astronomical