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BAILLY, JEAN-SYLVAIN.
Mémoires d’un Témoin de la Révolution.
[4], 335,
[1]; [4], 388; [4], 374, [2] pages, including half-titles, and errata leaf at end. 3 volumes. 8vo,
206x124 mm, contemporary tree calf with red morocco lettering pieces, cover corners
bumped and rubbed; small paper flaw in blank outer margin of Volume 2 title, occasional
toning or browning in Volume 3.
Paris: Levrault, Schoell et C.nie, 1804
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION
of Bailly’s posthumously published memoir of his political career in the early
years of the French Revolution, during which he was elected first President of the National
Assembly and later became the first mayor of Paris, before being guillotined in 1793. Historical
Dictionary of the French Revolution, pages 24-25.
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BAROZZI, FRANCESCO.
Cosmografia . . . la quale . . . introduce alla
Grande Matematica Costruzione di Tolomeo e a tutta l’Astrologia.
Woodcut text
illustrations and diagrams. [8], 230, [16] leaves. 8vo, 173x114 mm, contemporary limp vel-
lum, spine darkened, missing small portion of vellum; dark stains in outer margin of
opening leaves, scattered foxing.
Venice: Grazioso Perchacino, 1607
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN
of Barozzi’s 1585 Cosmographia, in which he sought to correct
what he saw as errors in the Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco, the standard medieval textbook
of astronomy. DSB I, 468; Houzeau & Lancaster 2676; Riccardi I, 85; Thorndike VI, 155.
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