Redi, Francesco.

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl' Insetti. Florence: all'Insegna della Stella, 1668, first edition, 4to, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 2 small and 10 full-page engravings in the text, 28 engraved plates (some folding), later eighteenth-century half morocco over speckled boards, from the John Crerar Library with bookplate, [Dibner 188; Evans Epochal achievements in the history of science 93; Garrison-Morton 97; Norman 1812], two perforated stamps on title (and one other leaf) and release stamp on verso, slight browning to one gathering and two plates

Ibid. Lettera intorno all'invenzione degli occhiali. Florence: Francesco Onofri, 1678, 4to, 14pp., engraved title vignette and head-piece, contemporary stiff wrappers

together 2 volumes

Catalogue Note

The first work is Redi's ground-breaking refutation of spontaneous generation in insects and other lower animals.