MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-1694). Dissertatio epistolica de bombyce . Edited by Henry Oldenburg (1615?-1677). London: John Martyn and Jacob Allestry, 1669. 4 o (230 x 173 mm). 12 folding engraved plates (one with several pale stains and patch on verso). (Some minor marginal soiling.) Modern half calf (some wear at edges). FIRST EDITION of Malpighi's important work on the structure of the silkworm, representing the first monograph on an invertebrate. "In de bombyce he had carefully observed the artisan nature construct each of the three stages--larva, chrysalis, and moth--through which the silkworm is formed. He further remarked on the specific apparatuses with which the silkworm is provided, among them the air ducts (tracheae) and the blood duct with a number of pulsating centers (corcula)" (DSB). Before this work appeared, the sillkworm was thought to have no internal organs. The Norman copy contains Oldenburg's Epistola misbound at end. Garrison-Morton 293; Nissen BBI 2658; NLM/Krivatsy 7334; Wing M-349; Norman 1428.
MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-1694). Dissertatio epistolica de bombyce . Edited by Henry Oldenburg (1615?-1677). London: John Martyn and Jacob Allestry, 1669. 4 o (230 x 173 mm). 12 folding engraved plates (one with several pale stains and patch on verso). (Some minor marginal soiling.) Modern half calf (some wear at edges). FIRST EDITION of Malpighi's important work on the structure of the silkworm, representing the first monograph on an invertebrate. "In de bombyce he had carefully observed the artisan nature construct each of the three stages--larva, chrysalis, and moth--through which the silkworm is formed. He further remarked on the specific apparatuses with which the silkworm is provided, among them the air ducts (tracheae) and the blood duct with a number of pulsating centers (corcula)" (DSB). Before this work appeared, the sillkworm was thought to have no internal organs. The Norman copy contains Oldenburg's Epistola misbound at end. Garrison-Morton 293; Nissen BBI 2658; NLM/Krivatsy 7334; Wing M-349; Norman 1428.
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