MALPIGHI Marcello. Opera Posthuma quibus praefationes, et Animadversiones addidit, pluribusque in locis emendationes instituit Faustinus Gavinellus. Editio Novissima... Venezia, Poletti, 1698. Folio mm. 410 x 260, pp. 22, 334 nice portrait at the end and 19 copper plates at the end[19 tavv. num. I-XIX frontispiece engraved by Suor Isabella Piccini]. Contemporary full vellum binding. Specimen with sign of humidity on margins, good copy.
Second edition, after the London one of the previous year, posthumous works by the famous professor at the University of Bologna, considered the father of microscopic anatomy and animal and plant artifacts, among the most acute investigative spirits of his century."The first section consists largely of correspondence arising out of Malpighi's published works, on the viscera, heart polyps, silkworms, anatomy of plants and animals, helminthology, &c... The 2nd section is in Italian and Latin in parallel cols. and contains... Malpighi's work... in defence of the newer studies in anatomy against Liparo's Galenistarum triumphum... The 3rd section... is Malpighi's De structura glandularum conglobatarum..." [Osler, n. 987, ove descrive l'ediz. di Londra, 1697; l'ed. italiana, identica per il contenuto, differisce però in parte nella disposizione]. Assai importante, oltre alla parte dedicata alla funzioni glandolari, è la parte dedicata ai denti, cui si riferiscono 2 tavv. f.t. rappresentanti dettagliatamente i denti umani. Garrison-Morton, n. 4299 [la 3a ediz.]; Poletti, De Re Dentaria, n. 128; Ars Medica per Saecula, n. 311; Vinciana, Autt. It. del '600, n. 1952; Hirsch, IV/111; Frati, Bibl. Malpighiana, n. 20.
MALPIGHI Marcello. Opera Posthuma quibus praefationes, et Animadversiones addidit, pluribusque in locis emendationes instituit Faustinus Gavinellus. Editio Novissima... Venezia, Poletti, 1698. Folio mm. 410 x 260, pp. 22, 334 nice portrait at the end and 19 copper plates at the end[19 tavv. num. I-XIX frontispiece engraved by Suor Isabella Piccini]. Contemporary full vellum binding. Specimen with sign of humidity on margins, good copy.
Second edition, after the London one of the previous year, posthumous works by the famous professor at the University of Bologna, considered the father of microscopic anatomy and animal and plant artifacts, among the most acute investigative spirits of his century."The first section consists largely of correspondence arising out of Malpighi's published works, on the viscera, heart polyps, silkworms, anatomy of plants and animals, helminthology, &c... The 2nd section is in Italian and Latin in parallel cols. and contains... Malpighi's work... in defence of the newer studies in anatomy against Liparo's Galenistarum triumphum... The 3rd section... is Malpighi's De structura glandularum conglobatarum..." [Osler, n. 987, ove descrive l'ediz. di Londra, 1697; l'ed. italiana, identica per il contenuto, differisce però in parte nella disposizione]. Assai importante, oltre alla parte dedicata alla funzioni glandolari, è la parte dedicata ai denti, cui si riferiscono 2 tavv. f.t. rappresentanti dettagliatamente i denti umani. Garrison-Morton, n. 4299 [la 3a ediz.]; Poletti, De Re Dentaria, n. 128; Ars Medica per Saecula, n. 311; Vinciana, Autt. It. del '600, n. 1952; Hirsch, IV/111; Frati, Bibl. Malpighiana, n. 20.
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