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Galileo, Guldin and Mersenne Square Off at the Collegio Romano


[[GALILEIANA] ] CASATI, Paolo. Terra machinis mota dissertationes geometricae, mechanicae, physicae, hydrostaticae ... . Rome, Ignazio de Lazaro, 1658.

Scarce augmented edition of this work on the theory of machines and the nature of gravity by the young Jesuit Paolo Casati.
$11,000


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ANONYMOUS. Il Nuovo Computista pei Commercianti ridotto alla massima facilità. . Milano, Cartaro Stampatore Candido Bucinelli, [1811.].

Rare ephemeral pocket book giving the exchange rates between Milan and various Italian city-states or regions as well as the most commonly encountered European currencies.
$2,650


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A Merchant's Compendium: First Edition of Apianus's Arithmetic and Two Bilingual Dictionaries.


APIAN[US], Petrus (Bienewitz). Eyn Newe unnd wohlgegr,underweysung aller Kauffmans Rechnung in dreyen b' mit sch'Regeln un[d] fragstucken begriffen. Ingolstadt, Georg Apianus, 1527.

A very attractive copy of the first edition of Apianus's Kauffmans Rechnung.
$48,000


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Trigonometry For The Practicing Astronomer


CAGNOLI, Antonio. Trigonometria Piana e Sferica. Paris, Francesco Ambrogio Didot, 1786.

First edition of, according to Lalande, the best book of the period on trigonometry and its application to astronomy.
$975


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"Copernicus First Scientific Work' - Gingerich


COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Lateribus et angulis Triangulorum, tum planorum rectilineorum tum Sphaericorum, libellus eruditissimus & utilissimus, cum ad plerasque Ptolemaei demonstrationes intelligendas, tam vero ad alia multa... Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1542.

Rare first edition of Copernicus' first scientific work, containing the first appearance of any part of the text of De Revolutionibus as well as Rheticus first published trigonometric tables.
$350,000


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