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BONNET, Charles (1720-1793). Considerations sur les corps organises... Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1762.
2 volumes, 8o (198 x 122 mm). Half-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, marlbed edges (some scuffing to covers, joints weak). Provenance: Prof. D. Giuseppe Baraldi (stamp on verso of half-titles); Antonio Lombardi (stamp on verso of half-titles); bookplate with Latin motto on front pastedowns; Fratelli Salimbeni (book label on front pastedowns).
FIRST EDITION. Bonnet's theory of generation offered the best synthesis of 18th century ideas of development. Bonnet was the first to clearly work out the theory of preformation of the embryo, or "incapsulation." (See also lot 163.) Garrison-Morton 472; Heirs of Hippocrates 947; Norman 164A; Wellcome II, p. 200. A HANDSOME COPY. (2)
2 volumes, 8o (198 x 122 mm). Half-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, marlbed edges (some scuffing to covers, joints weak). Provenance: Prof. D. Giuseppe Baraldi (stamp on verso of half-titles); Antonio Lombardi (stamp on verso of half-titles); bookplate with Latin motto on front pastedowns; Fratelli Salimbeni (book label on front pastedowns).
FIRST EDITION. Bonnet's theory of generation offered the best synthesis of 18th century ideas of development. Bonnet was the first to clearly work out the theory of preformation of the embryo, or "incapsulation." (See also lot 163.) Garrison-Morton 472; Heirs of Hippocrates 947; Norman 164A; Wellcome II, p. 200. A HANDSOME COPY. (2)