Opera omnia : figuris elegantissimis in æs incisis illustrata
by MALPIGHI, Marcello
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FIRST EDITION and one of the grandest productions of the Royal Society, with the rare frontispiece; this handsome folio contains the collected works of Malpighi (1628-94), the founder of histology and the greatest of the microscopists; they are today very scarce on the market. This is the first complete edition of his collected works published during his lifetime and a splendid example of bookmaking. Included here are Malpighi's great masterpieces on the anatomy of plants, the embryonic development of the chick (which makes him the founder of descriptive or iconographic embryology), the anatomy of the silkworm (the first monograph on an invertebrate), the discovery of the existence of capillaries (which completed the chain of the circulation of the blood postulated by Harvey), and his observations on the lungs (which overthrew the current conceptions of the pulmonary tissues demonstrating their true vesicular nature). Malpighi's writings were first collected in Le Clerc and Manget's Bibliotheca Anatomica (Geneva: 1685), but without his Anatome Plantarum and De Bombyce. Also, "the two folio volumes of this London edition are far more handsomely printed, in much larger type, and the drawings are beautifully reproduced and widely spaced upon the plates" (Adelmann, I, p. 509).
References: Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 141; Wing M342B, M344; cf. Garrison-Morton 66, variant imprint; cf. NLM/Krivatsy 7319; Nissen 2656. - Visit our website to see more images!
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003842
- Title
- Opera omnia : figuris elegantissimis in æs incisis illustrata
- Author
- MALPIGHI, Marcello
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Sawbridge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1686
- Keywords
- Biology, zoology, botany, microscopy, histology, embryology, silkworm, plant anatomy, medicine, pulmology
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- Botany and zoology; Sparrow - Milestones of Science;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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