Galilei (Galileo) and Baldessare Capra. Usus Et Fabrica Circini Cuiusdam Proportionis, Per Quem Omnia Fere Tum Euclidis, Tum Mathematicorum Omnium Problemata Facili Negotio Resolvuntur, Bologna, heirs of Dozza, 1655.

Galilei (Galileo) and Baldessare Capra. Usus Et Fabrica Circini Cuiusdam Proportionis, Per Quem Omnia Fere Tum Euclidis, Tum Mathematicorum Omnium Problemata Facili Negotio Resolvuntur, Bologna, heirs of Dozza, 1655 bound with Difesa di Galileo Galilei... Contro alle calunie & imposture di Baldessar Capra, Bologna, heirs of Dozza, 1655, together 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut decorations to titles, woodcut initials, head-pieces and diagrams, light marginal dampstaining towards end, contemporary vellum, rebacked, endpapers and pastedowns reusing manuscript documents on paper (dated Florence, 1743), preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams C23 & G6], 4to.

? A fragment extracted from the first volume of the 1655-1656 Dozza edition of Galileo's work consisting of Capra's work on the use and construction of proportional compasses and Galileo's resulting attack on Capra.