From the Collection of the late Dr. Eugene H. Courtiss
MALPIGHI, Marcello. Opera omnia. London: Robert Scott, 1686. 2 volumes bound in 1, 2o. Title-pages printed in red and black, 112 (of 116) plates (incomplete; lacking frontispiece, photocopy of frontispiece tipped in, occasional worming, mostly marginal, but touching a few letters, some light browning and spotting to text and plates). Contemporary calf (rebacked, some scuffing to boards). FIRST EDITION. "Malpighi was the founder of histology and the greatest of the microscopists" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 66); NLM/Krivatsy 7319.
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MALPIGHI, Marcello. Opera omnia. London: Robert Scott, 1686. 2 volumes bound in 1, 2o. Title-pages printed in red and black, 112 (of 116) plates (incomplete; lacking frontispiece, photocopy of frontispiece tipped in, occasional worming, mostly marginal, but touching a few letters, some light browning and spotting to text and plates). Contemporary calf (rebacked, some scuffing to boards). FIRST EDITION. "Malpighi was the founder of histology and the greatest of the microscopists" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 66); NLM/Krivatsy 7319.