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GLEICHEN (WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON) Auserlesene mikroskopische Entdeckungen bey den Pflanzen, Blumen und Bluethen, Insecten und andern Merkwurdigkeiten, FIRST EDITION, Nuremburg, Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, 1777[-1781]
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GLEICHEN (WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON)
Auserlesene mikroskopische Entdeckungen bey den Pflanzen, Blumen und Bluethen, Insecten und andern Merkwurdigkeiten, FIRST EDITION, 83 engraved plates (of which 6 illustrate microscopes), all but one hand-coloured, lacks portrait, short paper flaw repaired on p.55, light dampstain to margin of approximately 40 text leaves, twentieth century quarter morocco by John P. Gray of Cambridge [Nissen BBI 720], 4to, Nuremburg, Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, 1777[-1781]
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Attractively illustrated work by the celebrated German naturalist and microscopist Gleichen, on the anatomic details of plants and insects, in particular their organs of fertilisation. Includes the first observations and illustrations of pollen tubes.





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