Beschreibung:

REDI, Francesco. Osservazioni...intorno agli animali viventi che si trovano negli animali viventi . Florence: Piero Matini, all insegna del Lion d'Oro, 1684. 4 o (231 x 174 mm). Half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette emblem of the Accademia della Crusca, errata page at end of text, 26 numbered engraved plates, two of which are double-page (marks on title-page and some plates in an early hand, upper margin of p. 69 reinforced, gathering Gg with small wormholes affecting a few letters of text, plate 9 and 13 with small tears slightly affecting the plate, most plates shaved at lower margin, some with slight loss to image). Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in an early hand, edges speckled. Provenance : Ludovici Cini(?) (inscription, crossed out, on title-page). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTION COPY, inscribed, presumably by Redi, and then crossed out, on the title page. The part of the inscription still legible reads: "ex libris Ludovici Cini(?)... ex dono Authoris." The Cinis were a well-known patrician family in 16th and 17th century Florence. By dissection and collection, Redi identified some 108 endopathic and extopathic parasitic organisms including leeches, worms, snails, slugs, and cephalopods, carefully depicted in the engraved plates. Garrison & Morton 2448.1; Nissen ZBI 3323; NLM/Krivatsy 9458; Norman 1816; Prandi 26; Wellcome IV, p.488.