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LEEUWENHOEK, ANTON VAN. Arcana Naturae Detecta. 1695. [With:]
Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae Detectorum. 1697. Both Delft: Henrik van Kroonevelt.
2 works in one, small thick 4to, 192 x 155mm. (7 9/16 x 6 1/16in.), contemporary vellum over pasteboard, head of spine chipped, covers soiled, slight tears to three folding plates. Modern brown quarter morocco box.
FIRST LATIN EDITIONS (and first edition of letters 84-92 in the first work). First work with engraved portrait, engraved title and 27 engraved plates (15 folding) of microscopic subjects, numerous text engravings. Second work with 7 engraved plates, one of them folding.
Nissen ZBI 2417; Norman 1319, 1321; PMM 166.
Provenance: J. Warburton Begbie (1826-1876), Scottish physician, bookplate.
Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae Detectorum. 1697. Both Delft: Henrik van Kroonevelt.
2 works in one, small thick 4to, 192 x 155mm. (7 9/16 x 6 1/16in.), contemporary vellum over pasteboard, head of spine chipped, covers soiled, slight tears to three folding plates. Modern brown quarter morocco box.
FIRST LATIN EDITIONS (and first edition of letters 84-92 in the first work). First work with engraved portrait, engraved title and 27 engraved plates (15 folding) of microscopic subjects, numerous text engravings. Second work with 7 engraved plates, one of them folding.
Nissen ZBI 2417; Norman 1319, 1321; PMM 166.
Provenance: J. Warburton Begbie (1826-1876), Scottish physician, bookplate.