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SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro. Tracts on the Nature of Animals and Vegetables, Edinburgh: printed [by David Willison] for William Creech, Ar. Constable, T. Cadell, D. Davies and J. White, 1799.
8°, 6 folding engraved plates (plates heavily spotted, a few light spots in the text, marginal stain on C3v), contemporary half calf (worn). Provenance: Montrose Library, bookplate.
Fourth edition in English of Spallanzani's later confutation of the theory of spontaneous generation, first published in Italian in 1776. Blake p. 427.
8°, 6 folding engraved plates (plates heavily spotted, a few light spots in the text, marginal stain on C3
Fourth edition in English of Spallanzani's later confutation of the theory of spontaneous generation, first published in Italian in 1776. Blake p. 427.