SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729-1799). Dissertazioni di Fisca Animale, e Vegetabile, Modena: presso la Societa' Tipografica, 1780, 2 volumes in one, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding engraved plates by Domenico Cagnoni (blind-stamp on title and one text leaf, title repaired, ink stamp on foredges), modern library cloth [Garrison & Morton 981; Norman 1983]; and 3 near contemporary English and French translations of the above work in 5 volumes. (6)

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SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro (1729-1799). Dissertazioni di Fisca Animale, e Vegetabile, Modena: presso la Societa' Tipografica, 1780, 2 volumes in one, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding engraved plates by Domenico Cagnoni (blind-stamp on title and one text leaf, title repaired, ink stamp on foredges), modern library cloth [Garrison & Morton 981; Norman 1983]; and 3 near contemporary English and French translations of the above work in 5 volumes. (6)

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The first volume of the Dissertazioni details Spallanzani's discovery of the action of saliva in digestion and outlines his belief that gastric juice could act out of the body and worked against putrefaction. The second volume contains a record of the first artificial insemination of a viviparous animal.

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