LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONY VAN. [Works, in Dutch.] 3 etched or engraved additional titles, portrait of Leeuwenhoek, and 101 plates. 19 parts in 5 volumes (including Leeuwenhoek's separate letter on the circulation, and an index unrecorded by Dobell), complete except for missing letterpress title to Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen van levende Dierkens. 4to, 193-199x153 mm, Volume 1 in 20th-century boards with crude spine title in ink, rejointed with cloth, spine darkened and chipped, Volumes 2 and 3 in contemporary vellum boards missing leather lettering piece on Volume 2, Volumes 4 and 5 in contemporary sheep gilt, worn, with top of spines chipped; occasional foxing and dampstaining. Old stamps of the Keuringsdienst voor Waren/Gebied Zutphen, some of them ineptly washed or partly obliterated, on letterpress titles and in text in Volumes 1-3 Leiden & Delft, 1684-1718
LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONY VAN. [Works, in Dutch.] 3 etched or engraved additional titles, portrait of Leeuwenhoek, and 101 plates. 19 parts in 5 volumes (including Leeuwenhoek's separate letter on the circulation, and an index unrecorded by Dobell), complete except for missing letterpress title to Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen van levende Dierkens. 4to, 193-199x153 mm, Volume 1 in 20th-century boards with crude spine title in ink, rejointed with cloth, spine darkened and chipped, Volumes 2 and 3 in contemporary vellum boards missing leather lettering piece on Volume 2, Volumes 4 and 5 in contemporary sheep gilt, worn, with top of spines chipped; occasional foxing and dampstaining. Old stamps of the Keuringsdienst voor Waren/Gebied Zutphen, some of them ineptly washed or partly obliterated, on letterpress titles and in text in Volumes 1-3 Leiden & Delft, 1684-1718
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