LOT 3110
4th December 2024
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LOT 3110
MINIATURE BOOK. – Galilei GALILEO. Galileo a Madama Christina di Lorena (1615). Padua: Salmin, 1896 [colophon May 1897]. 128mo (16mm x 11mm.) Wood-engraved portrait. (Uncut leaves.) Original printed wrappers (creases to spine). Note: written in 1615 but first published in 1636 Galileo’s letter to his friend and patron Madama Christina was an attempt to unite Copernicanism with the doctrines of the Catholic church. Brondy has described this as the most important scientific book to be printed in miniature. Printed in the small ‘fly’s eye’ type it was for a long while considered ‘the smallest printed from movable type’. [Brondy, pp. 95-96].
Estimate: £400 – £600
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