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MARSIGLI, Luigi Ferdinando, Count (1658-1730). Dissertatio de generatione fungorum ... ad ... Joannem Mariam Lancisium ... cui accedit eiusdem responsio. Rome: Francesco Gonzaga, 1714. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (382 x 256mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 31 engraved plates and one engraved folding map. Woodcut initials and tailpieces (occasional light spotting and browning, light marginal dampstaining, skilful marginal repair to map touching image, unobtrusive wormholes affecting a1.4, last 2 quires and map, a1.4 supplied from another copy). Modern red crushed morocco.
FIRST EDITION. MARSIGLI'S FINELY-ILLUSTRATED WORK ON FUNGI, which describes in 110 paragraphs previous studies on fungi, including terrestrial, aquatic, and parasitical fungi, many of which are illustrated in the finely-engraved plates. Marsigli served in the army of Emperor Leopold I until 1704, and wrote on a number of subjects, including history, military science, oceanography, and natural history; in 1712 he founded the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna and in 1722 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of London. His Dissertatio is dedicated to the prominent Italian physician Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720), whose two works 'Dissertatio epistolaris de ortu, vegetatione, ac textura fungorum' (dedicated in turn to Marsigli) and 'Physiologicae animadversiones in Plinianam Villam nuper in Laurentino detectam' (illustrated by the folding map) form the second part of the work. BM(NH) III, p.1246; Nissen BBI 1280; Pritzel 5836; Wellcome IV, p.62.
FIRST EDITION. MARSIGLI'S FINELY-ILLUSTRATED WORK ON FUNGI, which describes in 110 paragraphs previous studies on fungi, including terrestrial, aquatic, and parasitical fungi, many of which are illustrated in the finely-engraved plates. Marsigli served in the army of Emperor Leopold I until 1704, and wrote on a number of subjects, including history, military science, oceanography, and natural history; in 1712 he founded the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto di Bologna and in 1722 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of London. His Dissertatio is dedicated to the prominent Italian physician Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720), whose two works 'Dissertatio epistolaris de ortu, vegetatione, ac textura fungorum' (dedicated in turn to Marsigli) and 'Physiologicae animadversiones in Plinianam Villam nuper in Laurentino detectam' (illustrated by the folding map) form the second part of the work. BM(NH) III, p.1246; Nissen BBI 1280; Pritzel 5836; Wellcome IV, p.62.