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Galileo Galilei.- Allacci (Leone) Apes Urbanae sive de viris illustribus, qui ab anno...
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Galileo Galilei.- Allacci (Leone) Apes Urbanae sive de viris illustribus, qui ab anno MDCXXX. per totum MDCXXXII Romae abfuerunt, ac typis aliquid euulgarunt, first edition, presentation copy with the author's ink inscription "Jacobo Philippo Tomasino Roma misit Autor" to foot of title, engraved armorial device to title, woodcut initials and decorations, dampstaining, occasional browning, R7 with short tear to lower margin, ink notes in a later hand to rear endpapers, contemporary vellum, 8vo, Rome, Lodovico Grignani, 1633.
*** First edition of Allacci's famous 'who's who' of men of letters, philosophers, and scientists living in Rome during the pontificate of Urban VIII., the earliest work to contain a bibliographical entry devoted to Galileo Galilei.
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