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Padua, Salmin, 1896. c m. 1.7 x 1.2. Portrait of Galileo engraved on the front door, with printed titles on the plate and on the spine, ink stains on the backs, binding in editorial cardboard.
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One of the most renowned miniaturized books, most likely the smallest scientific book, and certainly the smallest printed with movable type known as "fly's eye", first used by Salmin in 1878 for the edition of Dante. The book consists of 208 pages, of which each page contains 9 lines and each of them has a maximum of three words. Welsh 2935.
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