SPALLANZANI, L.

Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes.

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Avec une ébauche de l'histoire des ètres organisés avant leur fécondation, par J. Senebier. Genève,B. Chirol, 1785. 8vo. pp. (4), xcvi, 413, (3, blank), with 3 folded engraved plates. Contemporary stiff marbled boards (upper end of spine a bit frayed).

First French edition of this important monograph on the theory of generation. "Later confutation on the theory of spontaneous generation. Spallanzani's conclusions were similar to those expressed by Pasteur nearly a century later ..." (Garrison & Morton 102). The copy of O. Bütschli with his library stamp.