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NEEDHAM, JOSEPH TURBERVILLE. Nouvelles Observations Microscopiques. 8 engraved plates. xviii, 29, [1], 524, [4], pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled

NEEDHAM, JOSEPH TURBERVILLE. Nouvelles Observations Microscopiques. 8 engraved plates. xviii, 29, [1], 524, [4], pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine worn, ends chipped, front cover detached; occasional pencil underscoring and marginalia. Paris: Louis-Étienne Ganeau, 1750

  • Notes: first edition in french of portions of Needham's 1745 Account of Some New Microscopical Discoveries and his 1749 Observations upon the General Composition and Decomposition of Animal and Vegetable Substances. Needham was the leading 18th-century defender of the theory of spontaneous generation; see lot 270.

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