Lot 611
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LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni van (1632-1723). Anatomia et contemplatio nonnullorum naturae invisibilium secretorum comprehensorum epistolis... ad... Societatis Regiae Londinensis Collegium. Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1685. 4o (193 x 151 mm). 18 engraved illustrations in text. (Dampstaining.) Contemporary mottled calf, sides with unidentified gilt arms (accol coats-of-arms beneath an imperial crown), spine gilt panelled with repeated crowned monogram CT or CF (extremities worn). First Latin edition, letters 43, 42, and 38, the first of Leeuwenhoek's letters to appear in Latin translation, published the same year as the Dutch edition. VERY RARE. Dobell stated that the only copy he had seen was his own. Dobell 21; Waller 10875; Norman 1316.
LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni van (1632-1723). Anatomia et contemplatio nonnullorum naturae invisibilium secretorum comprehensorum epistolis... ad... Societatis Regiae Londinensis Collegium. Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1685. 4o (193 x 151 mm). 18 engraved illustrations in text. (Dampstaining.) Contemporary mottled calf, sides with unidentified gilt arms (accol coats-of-arms beneath an imperial crown), spine gilt panelled with repeated crowned monogram CT or CF (extremities worn). First Latin edition, letters 43, 42, and 38, the first of Leeuwenhoek's letters to appear in Latin translation, published the same year as the Dutch edition. VERY RARE. Dobell stated that the only copy he had seen was his own. Dobell 21; Waller 10875; Norman 1316.

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LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni van (1632-1723). Anatomia et contemplatio nonnullorum naturae invisibilium secretorum comprehensorum epistolis... ad... Societatis Regiae Londinensis Collegium. Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1685. 4o (193 x 151 mm). 18 engraved illustrations in text. (Dampstaining.) Contemporary mottled calf, sides with unidentified gilt arms (accol coats-of-arms beneath an imperial crown), spine gilt panelled with repeated crowned monogram CT or CF (extremities worn). First Latin edition, letters 43, 42, and 38, the first of Leeuwenhoek's letters to appear in Latin translation, published the same year as the Dutch edition. VERY RARE. Dobell stated that the only copy he had seen was his own. Dobell 21; Waller 10875; Norman 1316.

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Arcana naturae detecta. Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld, 1695. 4o (193 x 155 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Abraham de Blois after Jan Verkolje, additional engraved title, 27 engraved plates of which 15 folding, engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Count Antoni van Pergen (bookplate and shelfmark label). FIRST EDITION of letters 84-92, first Latin edition of letters 32-33, 37, 39, 40-41, and 61-83. Dobell 25; Nissen ZBI 2417; Waller 10877; Wellcome III, p. 477; Norman 1319.

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Arcana naturae, ope & beneficio... microscopiorum detecta. Leiden: Cornelis Boutesteyn, "1808" [1708]. 4o (194 x 156 mm). Additional engraved title by Romeyn de Hooghe (dated 1696), 11 engraved plates of which 5 folding, engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Count Antoni van Pergen (bookplate and shelfmark label). Third edition of the Anatomia seu interiora rerum (1687), which itself is the expanded second edition of the Anatomia et contemplatio nonnullorum naturae [see above]; containing letters 43, 42 and 38, 28-31, 34-36, 46-48, 44-45 and 48-52. Dobell 25b (misdescribing it as the 3rd edition of the Arcana naturae of 1688); Wellcome III, p. 477; Norman 1320. - [Bound with]: Continuatio arcanorum naturae detectorum. Delft: Henrik van Kroonevelt, 1697. 7 engraved plates, one folding. First Latin edition, first issue. A continuation of Arcana naturae detecta (1695), containing letters 93-107. Dobell 26; Waller 10880; Wellcome III, p. 477; Norman 1321. - [Bound with]: Continuatio epistolarum, datarum...ad Regiam Societatem Londinensem. Leiden: Theodore Haak and Johann Arnold Langerack, 1715. 10 engraved plates including 2 folding. Third Latin edition, including indexes to Arcana, evidently reprinted from the 1689 edition. Dobell 24b; Waller 10884; Wellcome III, p. 477; Norman 1318.

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Epistolae ad Societatem Regiam Anglicam, et alois illustres viros seu continuatio mirandorum arcanorum naturae detectorum. Leiden: Johann Arnold Langerack, 1719. 4o (193 x 158 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Abraham Blois after Jan Verkolje, engraved title vignette and 25 engraved plates including 2 folding. (Foxing.) Contemporary vellum. First Latin edition of Sevende verfolg der brieven (1702), containing letters 108-146. Dobell 27; Waller 10885; Wellcome III, p. 477; Norman 1323. - [Bound with]: Continuatio arcanorum naturae detectorum. Leiden: Johann Arnold Langerack, 1722. 7 engraved plates, one folding. First Latin edition, second issue, with a new title and 8-page index. Dobell 26a (calling it a second edition); Waller 10881; Wellcome III, p. 477; Norman 1322.

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Continuatio epistolarum, datarum ad ... Regiam Societatem Londinensem. Leiden: Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1689. 4o (194 x 158 mm). 9 engraved plates (2 folding), engraved illustrations in text. Modern half morocco gilt. Provenance: H. Thompson (19th-century signature). First Latin edition, letters 53-60 and indices for letters 28-31, 34-36, 38, 42-52 and 53-60. Dobell 24; Waller 10882; Wellcome III, p. 477; Norman 1317. - [Bound after:] [Duplicate copy of Norman 1320 (Dobell 25b)]. (5)