Christie’s South Kensington, London,
February 16
Buyer’s premium: 17.5/10 per cent
Galileo Galilei’s Istoria e Dimostrazioni...
UK: THE title page of a 1613, first complete edition of Galileo Galilei’s Istoria e Dimostrazioni..., containing his observations on the sunspots and his discoveries relating to the rotation of the sun – the first to contain Scheiner’s letters to Welser – which, bound in contemporary vellum, made £4500 (Quaritch) as an ex-Fort Augustus lot.
