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GLEICHEN-RUSSWURM, WILHELM FRIEDRICH, Freiherr von. Dissertation sur la Génération, les Animalcules Spermatiques, et ceux d'Infusions. 32 engraved plates; 2 letterpress tables. [4], 238, [2] pages, including half-title and final blank. 4to, 302x225 mm, later marbled boards, front joint cracked; half-title and title toned, page 225 browned, contents otherwise clean; uncut and largely unopened. Paris: Digeon, An VII [1799]
first edition in french of a 1778 study of microorganisms, in which Gleichen-Russwurm introduced the technique of phagocytic staining, "his most important contribution to science" (DSB). Garrison-Morton 2465 (original edition in German); Nissen ZBI 1590.
