Author: HEIDE Anthonius de :
Title: Anatome Mytuli , Belgicé MOSSEL , Structuram elegantem ejusque motum mirandum exponens. Subjecta est centuria Observationum Medicarum.
Description: .: 14. Amstelodami ( Amsterdam ) , Apud Janssonio Waesbergios, 1684, in-12°, (16)nn pp + 199 pp + 16 folding plates, ( complete ) , title printed in red & black, bound in contemporary vellum, marbled paste down papers, marbled edges. Tiny provenance indication on the verso of the title. Very fine copy. Anthonius de Heide (born in the Dutch province of Zeeland 1646 - died ca. 1695) was he medical doctor. This publication is his main work. With the help of a primitive microscope he makes here a detailed description of the mussel ( edible bivalves of the marine family Mytilidae ). He is the first to observe and describe the mussel's filter feeding mechanism with the cilia and their '' motus radiosus or motus tremulus ''. This is a first and original edition. ( science ; biology ; molluscs ; 17th c. imprint ). .

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