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Galileo Galilei
Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare
Per Paolo Frambotto
1649
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Third edition of Galileo's manual, Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare, which serves as a manual for a range-finding and calculating compass he made and sold.
- Galileo Galilei (Italian).
- Padova: Per Paolo Frambotto, 1649.
- [8], 80 pp.
- Octavo.
- Includes a folding plate depicting the compass.
- Bound in contemporary paper.
Condition Report
Very GoodInk titling to spine.
Some wear and rubbing to binding.
Tide-mark to lower half of gutter, extending along lower edge, primarily to first few leaves.
Red ink name to the ffep.
Front pastedown, *4v, page 36, 38-39 with writing, title page, page 17, 30 with ink ownership.
Closed tear to lower margin of page 38 from writing.
Page 50 with 4 numbers hand-corrected.
Leaf A5 with archival repair to top edge.
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