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Lot 359
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Malpighi, Marcello

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Malpighi, Marcello
  • Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo. London: John Martyn, 1673
  • Paper
First edition, 4to (246 x 170mm.), 4 folding engraved plates, recent period-style panelled calf, inner margins of plates a little frayed just touching surface of one figure, on new guards

Literature

Garrison and Morton 469; Norman 1429; Wing M350

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

A good copy with wide margins of this fundamental work which “placed the study of embryology on a sound basis, surpassing in accuracy all other contemporary work on the subject and foreshadowing some of the more important general lines of research in embryology” (Garrison and Morton).