Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
REDI, FRANCESCO. Experimenta circa generationem insectorum. 38 engraved plates, including 10 folding; one full- and one half-page illustration; extraneous portrait of Redi tipped to front free endpaper. [12], 230 [i. e., 330], [19] pages, including etched additional title by Romeyn de Hooghe and errata leaf at end. 12mo, 134x76 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink; light stain on O4, contents otherwise clean. Amsterdam: Andreas Frisius, 1671

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first edition in latin of the first scientific study of the theory of spontaneous generation, which Redi disproved. Garrison-Morton 97 (1668 original edition in Italian). Krivatsy 9452; Prandi 8 (this edition).