Historia insectorum generalis, ofte algemeene verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens

by Jan Swammerdam

$18,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Utrecht: Merinardus van Dreunen, 1669. First edition, an exceptional copy with all plates in fine contemporary hand coloring, of Swammerdam’s important entomological work in which he “sketched the general outlines of an entirely new theory of the generation of all insects. He vehemently attacked axioms that were three centuries old: 1 insects lack internal anatomy; 2 they originate by spontaneous generation; 3

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