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  • LEEUWENHOEK'S WORKS. LEEUWENHOEK, ANTHONY VAN. 1632-1723.

    Published by Johannes Arnold Langerak 1719-1730, Leipzig, 1719

    Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 4 volumes. 4to (190 x 151 mm). 3 engraved frontispieces, engraved portrait in volume 3, 110 engraved plates, numerous engraved illustrations in text. Rebacked contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt in 6 compartments. Some ttoning and spotting throughout, but still a very nice and scarce set. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION IN LATIN, with volumes 3 and 4 dated 1719, while volumes 1 and 2 are the revised 1722 editions, and with volume 1 containing the 1730 edition of Continuatio epistolarum. Leeuwenhoek published his letters individually beginning in 1684, but it was not until 1719 that he put out a collected edition of his works in Latin. Norman, 1301; Waller 10889; Wellcome III, 477.