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.

Marcello Malpighi, Anatome Plantarum (frontispiece), London 1675 - 1679.