NEHEMIAH GREW (1641-1712) The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And Several Other Lectures, Read Before the Royal Society . London: W. Rawlins for the author, 1682. 2° (319 x 197mm). 83 engraved plates, 5 folding. Woodcut headpieces and initials. (Occasional light spotting or browning, paper flaw in C3.) 20th-century pigskin in a contemporary style, boards panelled in blind, gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine, marbled edges (a few light scuff marks). Provenance : William Molyneux (1656-1698, ownership inscription on title) -- Robert B. Honeyman (his sale, Sotheby's London, pt IV, 5 November 1979, lot 1558) -- [sale, Sotheby's London, 26 April 1990, lot 308]. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. THE MOLYNEUX-HONEYMAN COPY OF 'THE BIRTH OF MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF PLANTS' (Grolier Science ). The Anatomy of Plants is the first collected and revised edition of these treatises and lectures, and is recognised as Grew's 'chief work which gained him the reputation of being one of the most distinguished scientists of the 17th century' (Hunt). Together with Malpighi, Grew is considered the co-founder of plant anatomy, and both men were among the first to investigate internal plant anatomy with the aid of the microscope and to demonstrate that plants have a characteristic ordered inner structure that could be classified; Grew 'showed that the "cells" first observed by Robert Hooke ... made up the normal structure of the parenchyma, and came very close to recognizing the universal cellular structure of plants' (Norman). This copy is from the library of the eminent Irish scientist William Molyneux, who was the founder and first Secretary of the Dublin Philosophical Society (and subsequently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1686), and author of various scientific and philosophical works, including Dioptrica nova (1692), the first optical treatise to be published in English. This copy's provenance makes it remarkable for uniting two of the leading Fellows of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Grolier Science 43b; Henrey 162; Hunt 362; Nissen BBI 758; NLM/Krivatsy 4986; Norman 946; Pritzel 3557; Wellcome III, p.164.
NEHEMIAH GREW (1641-1712) The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And Several Other Lectures, Read Before the Royal Society . London: W. Rawlins for the author, 1682. 2° (319 x 197mm). 83 engraved plates, 5 folding. Woodcut headpieces and initials. (Occasional light spotting or browning, paper flaw in C3.) 20th-century pigskin in a contemporary style, boards panelled in blind, gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine, marbled edges (a few light scuff marks). Provenance : William Molyneux (1656-1698, ownership inscription on title) -- Robert B. Honeyman (his sale, Sotheby's London, pt IV, 5 November 1979, lot 1558) -- [sale, Sotheby's London, 26 April 1990, lot 308]. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. THE MOLYNEUX-HONEYMAN COPY OF 'THE BIRTH OF MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF PLANTS' (Grolier Science ). The Anatomy of Plants is the first collected and revised edition of these treatises and lectures, and is recognised as Grew's 'chief work which gained him the reputation of being one of the most distinguished scientists of the 17th century' (Hunt). Together with Malpighi, Grew is considered the co-founder of plant anatomy, and both men were among the first to investigate internal plant anatomy with the aid of the microscope and to demonstrate that plants have a characteristic ordered inner structure that could be classified; Grew 'showed that the "cells" first observed by Robert Hooke ... made up the normal structure of the parenchyma, and came very close to recognizing the universal cellular structure of plants' (Norman). This copy is from the library of the eminent Irish scientist William Molyneux, who was the founder and first Secretary of the Dublin Philosophical Society (and subsequently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1686), and author of various scientific and philosophical works, including Dioptrica nova (1692), the first optical treatise to be published in English. This copy's provenance makes it remarkable for uniting two of the leading Fellows of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Grolier Science 43b; Henrey 162; Hunt 362; Nissen BBI 758; NLM/Krivatsy 4986; Norman 946; Pritzel 3557; Wellcome III, p.164.
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