Arcana Naturae Detecta Continuatio Arcanorum by Antoni Leeuwenhoek (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint Of The 1695 & 1697 Editions. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp 568; 192. Original publisher's faux leather peach cloth, lettered gilt at the spines. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Text in Latin. Both volumes illustrated with b/w reproductions of engravings, many in fold-out. Facsimile reprint of Leeuwenhoek's letters on microorganisms to the Royal Society of London. About fine.

Condition: sehr gut. 568 S., 32 Taf.; + 192 S., Taf., 24 cm. Impr. anast. [der Ausg.] Delphis Batavorum, Krooneveld 1695 + 1697. Sprache: Latin.

First & first Latin of the Continuatio. Engraved allegorical title by Jeremias van Schaak, frtsp. of author, index & errata. With 34 engraved plates (26 folding) and numerous text illustrations. Half morocco over marbled boards. Interior excellent. First edition of the Arcana and first edition in Latin of the Continuatio. Leeuwenhoek's most important discoveries are contained in this celebrated series of letters to the Royal Society of London, to Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren and Christian Huygens. Leeuwenhoek communicates his epoch-making experiments with the microscope, revealing to his contemporaries a previously unknown and fascinating aspect of nature -- the world of microorganisms. Among the remarkable discoveries described in the present text are the first reasonably accurate account of red blood corpuscles in vertebrates and invertebrates, the first fully described spermatozoa and protozoa, infusoria and rotifera, and proof that living organisms are always the product of pre-existing parents of their own species. His work and Hooke's "raised problems on the concepts of creation, sexual generation, genetics, the structure of plants and animals and their relations, which they themselves could not solve. Though one can say with truth that protozoology, bacteriology and microbiology begin with Leeuwenhoek." The first work contains the ninety-two letters through 1695; the second is a continuation and contains the remaining fifteen letters. Dobell, 25, 26; Osler, 1020, 1021; Printing & the Mind of Man, 166; Singer, History of Biology, pp. 166-69; Sparrow, Milestones of Science, p. 19; Wolf, History of Science, II, pp. 420-22. $ 17,500.00.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1697 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 220.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1722 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 220.