SCIENCES] - Lot 52

SCIENCES] SPALANZI, NEEEDHAM] New Research on Microscopic Discoveries and the Generation of Organized Bodies, London and Paris, Lacombe, 1769 Two parts in one 8vo volume in speckled full calf, ribbed spine with gilt decorations in the panels: LIV, (2), 298 pages; XVJ, (2), 293 pages; 9 fold-out plates outside the text; 1 table within the text First French edition, published 4 years after the original. Translated from the Italian. With notes by J.T. de Needham. On the page opposite the title page (which is beginning to detach), written in pen: “Malesherbes 89,” with “copy belonging to Lamoignon de Malesherbes” written in pencil below; stamp of the Ambroise Lefevre bookstore in Paris. Rough restoration on the title page. Split spine, worn corners, trimmed headbands.