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GREW (Nehemiah): THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF TRUNKS, together with an account of their vegetation grounded thereupon, London, by J.M. for Walter Kettilby, 1675
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (185 x 110mm.), 19 engraved plates all, except one, folding or double-page, one on black paper, (8 leaves misbound), contemporary calf, spine gilt (upper joint cracked; head and foot of spine slightly defective)
Grew's third work, scarce. Henrey vol. I pp. 135-8 "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 164; Wing G. 1947; Pritzel 3556
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (185 x 110mm.), 19 engraved plates all, except one, folding or double-page, one on black paper, (8 leaves misbound), contemporary calf, spine gilt (upper joint cracked; head and foot of spine slightly defective)
Grew's third work, scarce. Henrey vol. I pp. 135-8 "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 164; Wing G. 1947; Pritzel 3556