Opuscules de physique animale et végétale. Traduit de l'italien, et augmentés d'une introduction dans laquelle on fait connoître les découvertes microscopiques dans les trois règnes de la nature. . . (Two volumes, complete). (From the library of Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher, important forensic psychiatrist and author of many books, including An Interpretation of the Madness of King George III and The Mind of the Murderer, with Guttmacher's ownership signature. Also contains earlier French ownership signature, possibly A.N. LaBossiere (?), signed w/ flourish.).
Geneva: Barthelemi Chirol, 1777. First edition thus. Half-Leather w/ blue marbled boards (period). Octavo, pp. 256, 408, w/ two fold-out plates inside back cover Volume One, four fold-out plates inside back cover volume two. Good+, light scuffing to attractive blue marbled covers, pages lightly rippled. Item #8873
Attractive set of an important work in which the early scientist refuted theories of spontaneous generation and elaborated upon van Leeuwenhoek's observations on spermatozoa with great scientific and observational skill.
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