Lot 293 
293
Guido Ubaldo del Monte
Mecanicorum liber. 1615
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,605 Sold:
€ 1,200 / $ 1,284 (incl. surcharge)
Riccardi I/2, 179. - Honeyman 3012. - Cf. Poggendorff II, 193; Darmstaedter 94 (first edition 1577). - Second Italian edition. - Guidobaldo's first and most famous work on mechanics. "Guidobaldo's first work, the Liber mechanicorum, was regarded by contemporaries as the greatest work on statistics since the Greeks ... Guidobaldo was Galileo's patron and friend for twenty years and was possible the greatest single influence on the mechanics of Galileo" (DSB IX, 487). - Waterstained and slightly foxed in places, stamped on verso of title and on 1 l. and with entries by an old hand. Edges somewhat rubbed. - Ex-libris.
With numerous figural and schemat. woodcuts in text and woodcut printer's device on title. 20th cent. half calf. - Waterstaining and partly foxing, title verso and 1 leaf stamped and with entry by old hand. Edges rubbed. - Ex libris.
293
Guido Ubaldo del Monte
Mecanicorum liber. 1615
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,605 Sold:
€ 1,200 / $ 1,284 (incl. surcharge)