[GALILEO] BERNEGGER, SCRIBAL MANUSCRIPT OF BERNEGGER'S NOTES TO GALILEO'S WORK ON THE PROPORTIONAL COMPASS, 1640

entitled "In Tractatum de proportionum instrumento ab Ex.mo Gallileo emanato Notationes Mathie Berneggeri", with some later manuscript corrections. [Italy], 28 October 1640 4to (272 x 206mm.), 51 leaves, diagrams and tables in text, anchor watermark, later additional manuscript title ("Matthie Berneggeri Notationes in Tractatum de instrumento proportionem") on flyleaf, later vellum boards (new front free endpapers added at the same time, containing the later manuscript title-page), modern half morocco case, a few small marginal stains

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