Author: MALPIGHI, M.- Opera Omnia.- 1687.-
Title: Opera Omnia, seu thesaurus locupletissimus botanico - medico - anatomicus, viginti quatuor tractatus complectens et in duos tomos distributus, quorum tractatuum seriem videre est dedicatione absolutâ. .... [at the endf of vol. II, sG4 & 3H4, 16 pp.:] IDEM, Structura Glandularum Conglobatarum consimiliunque partium epistola, Regiae Societati Londini...Die.. Junii 1688 Dicata...Tog. w. 2) IDEM, Opera Posthuma.
Description: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]; Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Apud Petrum van der Aa, Bibliopolam; Apud Georgium Gallet, 1687. 1690 - 1700. [Impressum vol. I a single cancelled line by means of the usual overpasting w. a strip of blank paper]. Printed title of 'Opera Posthuma' in red and black. Woodc. vigns. on titles. 4to. [Meas. 19 x 23 cm]. In 3 vols. W. 118 (10 fold.) and 19 (all fold.) pls. [Without engr. fronts.]. In a nice recent half vellum over monochrome paper brds. Corners in vellum. (spines vols. 1 and 3 a small scratch.). [*3 [of 4 without engr. front.], **4, A-Z4, Aa4; A4-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Fff4 & Ggg4-Hhh4; *3 [of 4, without engr. front.], **4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Bbb4, Ccc2]. (XIV [of XVI], (1), 2 - 170, XXII [index rerum], 'Pars altera' from M4r (p. 95); (1-6), 7 - 379, XXXV [index], I (privilege, sigtned in letterpress by Fagel & Simon van Beaumont); (1-2), 3 - 16 pp; XIV (of XVI], 1 - 387, I (blank) pp.). (Some pp. sl. yellow., some spotting; vol. 1 and 3 a number of lvs. and plates with a large visible waterspot in the lower righthand corner.(Vol. I pp. 113 - 128, less so to the end; Vol. 3 pp. 80 - 180, badly watersp. 92 -130). (1 plate [at p. 150] a small corner from blank lower righthand margin missing.). (signatures in ink on the title page of Tomus Primus to the left and right of the woodc. vignet. Left: 'Fam. Rat. Dr. Karl Arns... Remscheid, 1907'; to the right 2 names: '..Tiellinger, Dr' & '.. Arnaldi'). First continental edition, preceded by the London 1686 [Scott] and idem 1686-87 [Littlebury]. The Opera Posthuma in a reissue of the 1698 Amsterdam Gallet edition. DSB vol. IX, pp. 62 - 66: Parkinson-Lumb, 1538: Fishman & Richards i.l.c.: G&M 66 (first ed. 1686): 'Malpighi was the founder of histology and the greatest of the microscopists ... his name is perpetuated in the 'Malpighian bodies', 'Malpighi's layer' of the epidermis, 'Malpighi's (splenic) corpuscles ...': Heirs of Hippocrates, 372: '... contains the famed work on the anatomy of plants, the embryonic development of the chick, the anatomy of the silkworm (the first monograph on an invertebrate), and one of his greatest contributions, the discovery of the existence of capillaries, which completed the chain of the circulation of the blood postulated by Harvey.': A very good copy. Frati, nrs. 3 & 8: Krivatsy items 7321, 7325: Citaten!!!! references veel meer!!!

Keywords: medicine botany microscopy W38B collatie