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GREW, Nehemiah. The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks, Together with an Account of their Vegetation grounded thereupon. London: J.M. for Walter Kettilby, 1675.
First edition of Grew’s scarce third work. “Nehemiah Grew and Marcello Malpighi, the pioneers in England and Italy respectively, in the field of microscopic botany, and the creators of the science of plant anatomy…These two men wrote on a subject that could hardly have existed before their day” (Henrey I, pp. 135-138).
8vo (181 x 104 mm). 19 engraved plates, all but one folding, one printed in white on a black background. (A few pale spots, paper flaw on G4 affecting a few letters.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: John Lawson M.D. (d.1705) President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1694 (bookplate on pastedown signifying his bequest to Sion College in 1705); Sion College Library (stamp on verso of title-page accompanied by a deaccession stamp dated 1938). ESTC R218849; Henrey 164; Pritzel 3556; Wing G-1947.
First edition of Grew’s scarce third work. “Nehemiah Grew and Marcello Malpighi, the pioneers in England and Italy respectively, in the field of microscopic botany, and the creators of the science of plant anatomy…These two men wrote on a subject that could hardly have existed before their day” (Henrey I, pp. 135-138).
8vo (181 x 104 mm). 19 engraved plates, all but one folding, one printed in white on a black background. (A few pale spots, paper flaw on G4 affecting a few letters.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: John Lawson M.D. (d.1705) President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1694 (bookplate on pastedown signifying his bequest to Sion College in 1705); Sion College Library (stamp on verso of title-page accompanied by a deaccession stamp dated 1938). ESTC R218849; Henrey 164; Pritzel 3556; Wing G-1947.