George Forster Cooks 2nd Voyage aboard Resolution 1st ed. NF 1777 leather rare

 Geminiano Montanari L'Astrologia convinta Nicolini Venice 1685 Near Fine 1st


L'Astrologia convinta di falso col mezzo du noue esperienze. Francesco Nicolini, Venice, 1685. L'astrologia convinta di falso col mezzo di nuove esperienze, e ragioni fisico-astronomiche, o' sia la caccia del frugnuolo di Geminiano Montanari..., First & only edition, engraved portrait of Geminiano Montanari, small marginal waterstain to lower edge, contemporray paper boards. Close to Fine copy.  [Gamba 2019; Vinciana, Aut. Ital. del '600, 1593.; Riccardi II, 175; Thorndike VIII, 342.], 4to, Francesco Nicolini, Venice, 1685. Scarce. Montanary was an influential astronomer and lecturer in Bologna & Padova. His work was strongly influenced by the ‘Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem’ by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and worked to exclude astrology from university teaching. 



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