GALILEO Galileo. Systema cosmicum in quatuor... - Lot 32 - Audap & Associés

GALILEO Galileo. Systema cosmicum in quatuor dialogis. De duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano Augustæ Treboc. (Strasbourg). David Hauttius for Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier of Leide, 1635; in-4 of 495 p., 12 ff. in contemporary Dutch ivory vellum binding with flaps, smooth spine with title formerly calligraphed in brown ink, remnants of binding. First Latin edition preceded, two years earlier, by an edition in Italian. The work had been put on the index and the author prosecuted for Copernican heresy. With its explanations and defence of Copernicus' system, it was the most influential of all Galileo's books. The Latin translation is by Matthias Bernegger. BEAUTIFUL FRONTISPICE ENGRAVED IN DRAWING by JACQUES VAN DER HEYDEN SHOWING ARISTOTE, PTolemy, AND COPERNIC with scientific instruments in hand. Portrait of Galileo also engraved by Van der Heyden after Stefano delle Bella. Numerous woodcut figures of physics and astronomy in the text. A FINE COPY IN ITS ORIGINAL DUTCH VELLUM. A period annotation to a preliminary page.