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Sale 424 View Catalogue
The Library of Roger Wagner
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Title-page of the 1584 edition of Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas, with 112 hand-colored double-page maps.
Estimate: $150,000/200,000
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Monday, March 15, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Tuesday, March 16, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Wednesday, March 17, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday, March 18, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
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| Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzio de Grazia, Contro al Trattato del Sig. Galileo Galilei, delle cose che stanno sù l'Acqua, ò che in quella si muouono. All'illvstriss. Sig. Enea Piccolomini Aragona, Signore de Sticciano, &c. Nella quale si contengono molte considerazioni filosofiche remote dalle vulgate opinioni |
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| Galileo's Risposta alle Opposizioni..., 1615, one of his rarest works, with perhaps the first printed account of the famous experiment conducted at the Tower of Pisa. Offered in Sale 424, The Library of Roger Wagner, March 18, 2010. Estimate: $20,000/30,000 |
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