Year/Century: 18th century
Language: French
Subject: Science & Medicine
Binding: Leather
Description: New research on microscopical discoveries and the generation of organized bodies by Lazaro Spallanzani; two volumes, first French edition; second part with separate title page: New physical and metaphysical research on nature and religion, including a new theory of the earth and a measurement of the altitude of the Alps by M. Needham de. WORK TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF MR. ABBOT SPALANZANI... BY MR. ABBOT REGLEY... WITH NOTES, PHYSICAL & METAPHYSICAL RESEARCH ON NATURE & RELIGION, & A NEW THEORY OF THE EARTH, BY MR. DE NEEDHAM; NEW RESEARCH ON MICROSCOPIC DISCOVERIES, AND THE GENERATION OF ORGANIZED BODIES..... New physical and metaphysical investigation on nature and religion, with a new theory of the earth and a measure of the height of the Alps, by M. is the title of the second portion, which has its own title page. Bound in full uniform calf with gilt-tooled spines and illustrated with nine engraved plates, de Needham London & Paris: Chez Lacombe, 1749, with notes by Needham, in two octavo volumes (5 1/4 by 7 3/4") in very good condition (except for the missing frontis in part 1) with bookplates for William Constable of Burton Constable Hall in East Yorkshire on the pastedowns of both volumes. Written in French
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