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Marcello Malpighi Opera Omnia 1686

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Title: Opera Omnia
Author: Malpighi, Marcello
Description: 2 volumes in 1. [6], 18, 82, [2], 36; [8], 72, [4], 44, [2], 20, [2], 144 pp. [1], a2, B-Dd2, A-I2; A2, a2, B-T2, A-M2, A-F2, A1, B-Oo2. Engraved frontispiece and 123 engraved plates including 7 small supplementary plates. (Folio) 14½x9¼, period blind-tooled calf, red morocco lettering piece. First Edition."This collection of Malpighi's works contains his famed work on the anatomy of plants, the embryonic development of the chick, the anatomy of the silkworm (the first monograph on an invertebrate), and one of his greatest contributions: the discovery of the existence of capillaries, which completed the chain of the circulation of the blood postulated by Harvey." (Heirs of Hippocrates). "Malpighi was the founder of Histology and the greatest of the microscopists...He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in the Malpighian bodies,..." (Garrison-Morton). Garrison-Morton 66; Heirs of Hippocrates 574 (2nd edition).
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Th. Sawbridge, et al
Date Published: 1686