Lot 242
Mayfly.- Swammerdam (Jan) Ephemeri Vita..., first edition, Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675.
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Mayfly.- Swammerdam (Jan) Ephemeri Vita. Of afbeeldingh van 's Menschen Leven, Vertoont in de Wonderbaarlijcke en nooyt gehoorde Historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent Haft of Oever-aas, first edition, 8 engraved plates, of which 2 folding, later ownership names to front free endpaper, some very light browning, else excellent, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine titled in manuscript and with small sticker to head, soiled, particularly to spine, small 8vo, Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675.
⁂ First edition of Swammerdam's treatise on the life-cycle and anatomy of the mayfly, containing his first published descriptions and illustrations of the internal anatomy of an insect.
Description
Mayfly.- Swammerdam (Jan) Ephemeri Vita. Of afbeeldingh van 's Menschen Leven, Vertoont in de Wonderbaarlijcke en nooyt gehoorde Historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent Haft of Oever-aas, first edition, 8 engraved plates, of which 2 folding, later ownership names to front free endpaper, some very light browning, else excellent, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine titled in manuscript and with small sticker to head, soiled, particularly to spine, small 8vo, Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675.
⁂ First edition of Swammerdam's treatise on the life-cycle and anatomy of the mayfly, containing his first published descriptions and illustrations of the internal anatomy of an insect.
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