Historia insectorum generalis; ofte, algemeene verhandeling der bloedeloose dierkens.
Utrecht: Merinardus van Dreunen, 1669. First edition, an exceptional copy with all plates in fine contemporary hand coloring, of Swammerdam’s important entomological work in which he “sketched the general outlines of an entirely new theory of the generation of all insects. He vehemently attacked axioms that were three centuries old..... More
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