Arcana Naturae, Ope & beneficio exquisitissimorum Microscopiorum. Detecta variisque experiments demonstata, Uma Cum ...

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Leiden: Cornelium Boutestein, 1696. 2 vols. in one ("Arcana Naturae" and "Continuatio Epistolarum"). 8vo. Contemp. full speckled/panelled calf (skilfully rebacked). (xii, 58, 258, ii, 124pp.). With additional illustrated title-page, title-vign., head & tailpiece illusts., dec. initials, text-illusts., and tipped-in-plates mostly folding. Fine. NOTE: Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the Dutch naturalist who observed Micro-organisms; first to give accurate descriptions of the red blood corpuscles; described spermatozoa...; etc.