‎NEEDHAM‎
‎Nouvelles observations microscopiques, avec des découvertes intéressantes sur la composition & la décomposition des corps organisés‎

‎Chez Louis-Etienne Ganeau, à Paris 1750, Fort in-12 (9,5x17cm), xviij, 524pp. (4) 29pp., relié.‎

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‎Edition originale française, illustrée de 8 planches dépliantes in fine. Traduction deLouis Anne Lavirotte. Reliure en pleine basane brune marbrée d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné de 5 fleurons. Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Coiffe de tête très élimée. Manque au mors qupérieur en queue. Mors supérieur fendu en tête. 2 coins émoussés. Mors frottés, ainsi que le dos, les coiffes. Cette traduction rassemble deux éditions anglaises : Needham's Account of some New Microscopical Discoveries (1745) etObservations upon the General Composition and Decomposition of Animal and Vegetable Substances (1749), elle contient en outre des additions substantielles qui paraissent pour la première fois. Le premier ouvrage est un compte rendu des diverses observations de Needham, notamment sur le Calmar, le pollen, les anguilles, le lézard, etc. Le second expose la théorie de la génération qui place l'auteur dans le camp des vitalistes, dont l'axiome est opposé aux théories de Buffon sur la génétique. In fine :Description et Usage du Microscope avec une planche. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com - ‎

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‎NEEDHAM, (Jean) (1713-1791):‎

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‎Nouvelles observations microscopiques, avec des découvertes intéressantes sur la composition & la décomposition des corps organisés.‎

‎Paris, (Houry pour) Louis-Etienne Ganeau, 1750, in-8vo, XVIII + 30 p. + 524 p. + 4 p. + 8 folding engraved plates, very light browning in places, marbled calf on raised bands, red title label on spine, gold tooled spine, extreme top and bottom of spine missing, lower corners bumped and scraped, red edges.‎


‎Rare first French edition of the 2nd volume of Needham's «An account of some new microscopical discoveries» (1745), translated by L.-An. Lavirotte; incl. in the preliminaries an interesting introduction and 29 pages "Description et usage du microscope".The fine plates show dissected animals, including an octapus, and a microscope and its parts.“Needham's work is of biological importance as the first attempt to give a scientific basis to a theory of spontaneous generation, taken as a matter of fact by St. Thomas Aquinas. It was attacked by Spallanzani, and caused a long controversy, which had been provisionally settled in the negative by Pasteur. The above edition contains a new and interesting introduction. Rare.” (Zeitlingen, Sotheran, Suppl. I, 4922, and Suppl. 2, I/623).Needham, described by his biographer as a keen and judicious observer, had a peculiar dexterity in conforming his observations by experiments and enjoyed a high reputation as a man of science. Quérard VI/398; Nissen 2959; Hirsch-H. IV/334. ‎

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