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REDI, FRANCESCO. Experimenta naturalia circa varias res naturales. 12 engraved plates; 2 text illustrations. [8], 312, [32] pages, including half-title and engraved additional title; repaired clean tear in plate facing page 138. 12mo, contemporary vellum, spine darkened. E. N. da C. Andrade bookplate. Amsterdam: Henricus Wetstenius, 1685
Work on New World fauna and flora first published in 1675. This edition forms Volume 2 of Redi's Opusculorum pars prior[-tomus alter]. Plate subjects include armadillo, iguana, mermaid, Mexican black pepper, cinchona plant, vanilla beans, etc. The book also contains a Latin translation of Redi's 1664 Osservazioni intorno alle Vipere, "the first methodical work on snake-poison" (Garrison-Morton). Alden 686/128; Krivatsy 9457 (this edition).; cf. Garrison-Morton 2102.
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