Bologna: HH del Dozza, 1655-56. First collected edition. 8vo. Edited by Carlo Manolessi. With half-title in each volume. Each volume with separate title-page, imprint, and pagination. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Stefano della Bella, engraved portrait of Galileo by Francesco Villamena, one engraved folding plate of a military compass, and numerous in-text woodcut charts, diagrams, and illustrations. Full polished tree calf, brown morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, joints rubbed and lightly worn, wear to foot of spine of first volume; speckled blue edges; creasing and wear to half-titles, repair in verso of half-title in first volume; old ownership signature at top of each title-page at front; scattered light soiling, toning, and dampstaining to text; scattered small paper repairs throughout each volume; final 40-pages of second volume with dampstaining in lower margin, p. 225 in same with small loss in lower margin. Brunet II, 1461; BL/STC Italian, p. 372; Houzeau & Lancaster 3386; OPAC SBN 002155, 002154; Cinti 132; Riccardi I 518

First collected edition of Galileo's works. This copy collates complete compared to SBN/It, although they call for two unsigned leaves between signature S4. This copy, as others we have found, does not have those two leaves, but the pagination and text is continuous.