MALPIGHI, Marcello |
Anatome Plantarum; Cui subjungitur appendix, iteratas & auctas ejusdem authoris de ovo incubato observations continens |
London, for the Royal Society, 1675 - 1679 |
First edition. |
Folio, 36 cm. Three titlepages in red and black, frontispiece (repeated), 102 engraved plates. |
Contemporary sheep, gilt spine. |
Marcello Malpighi was one of the most eminent of the early microscopists and, together with Nehemiah Grew, made the first microscopic studies of plant anatomy. |
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Marcello Malpighi, Anatome Plantarum (frontispiece), London 1675 - 1679. |