VALLISNIERI Antonio Lezione Accademica intorno l'origine delle Fontane, con le Annotazioni per chiarezza maggiore della medesima.... Seconda Edizione. Con la Giunta di varie Lettere Dissertatorie, un'altra Lezione Accademica, Osservazioni, Ragioni, ed Esperienze nuove, dimostranti la verità del proposto Sistema, con la Risposta alle Obiezioni del Sig. Dottore N. N. compilate da Gaston Giuseppe Giorgi, Medico, e Fisico Fiorentino... unito con/bound with: PAGLIAI Leone Bernardo- Conclusiones Physico-Medicae quas sub Auspiciis Ill.mi.... Antonii Vallisneri exposuit, et coram Almo Philosophiae, ac Medicinae Doctorum Collegio defendit Senis... Anno MDCCXXXV Leo Bernardus Pagliai Senensis... Venezia, Antonio Bortoli, 1726; & Venezia, Pietro Marchesano, 1726. 4to mm. 240 x 180; Contemporary full leather binding, gilt ittles and ornaments on the spine; pp. 8 14], 407; pp. 40. Nice frontispiece at the beginning with 2 faces of the medal dedicated to Vallisnieri; 1 tav. copper plate, 103., Ex-libris of ["Phillip Carteret Webb"].
Second edition, substantially increased, first issue. The Vallisnieri's work on the origin of springs, a classic of geological literature, contains his demonstration that ground water percolates down and is then passed along impervious strata until there is a break, emerging as springs and rivers. The plate illustrating geological sections of mountains is one of the first of its kind. This edition also contains as an appendix a dissertation on spontaneous generation and embryology, occupying the second part of forty pages: is the doctoral thesis of the Academic of Siena Leone Bernardo Pagliai. This substantially augmented version of Vallisnieri's work is in first issue, with pages 325-330 in uncorrected states. The first edition appeared as the second part of his Opere diverse published in 1715, and comprised only 87 pages. Specimen of prestigious origin, belonged to the famous antiquarian and English collector of the eighteenth century, Philip Carteret Webb. Sign of damp stain on the upper margin of some leaves, spine rebacked, good condition. Riccardi, II, 577, n. 2; Sabia, Le opere di A. V., nn. 189-190; Theories of the earth n 104 (Poletti imprint); Ward and Carozzi 2217 (Poletti imprint).
VALLISNIERI Antonio Lezione Accademica intorno l'origine delle Fontane, con le Annotazioni per chiarezza maggiore della medesima.... Seconda Edizione. Con la Giunta di varie Lettere Dissertatorie, un'altra Lezione Accademica, Osservazioni, Ragioni, ed Esperienze nuove, dimostranti la verità del proposto Sistema, con la Risposta alle Obiezioni del Sig. Dottore N. N. compilate da Gaston Giuseppe Giorgi, Medico, e Fisico Fiorentino... unito con/bound with: PAGLIAI Leone Bernardo- Conclusiones Physico-Medicae quas sub Auspiciis Ill.mi.... Antonii Vallisneri exposuit, et coram Almo Philosophiae, ac Medicinae Doctorum Collegio defendit Senis... Anno MDCCXXXV Leo Bernardus Pagliai Senensis... Venezia, Antonio Bortoli, 1726; & Venezia, Pietro Marchesano, 1726. 4to mm. 240 x 180; Contemporary full leather binding, gilt ittles and ornaments on the spine; pp. 8 14], 407; pp. 40. Nice frontispiece at the beginning with 2 faces of the medal dedicated to Vallisnieri; 1 tav. copper plate, 103., Ex-libris of ["Phillip Carteret Webb"].
Second edition, substantially increased, first issue. The Vallisnieri's work on the origin of springs, a classic of geological literature, contains his demonstration that ground water percolates down and is then passed along impervious strata until there is a break, emerging as springs and rivers. The plate illustrating geological sections of mountains is one of the first of its kind. This edition also contains as an appendix a dissertation on spontaneous generation and embryology, occupying the second part of forty pages: is the doctoral thesis of the Academic of Siena Leone Bernardo Pagliai. This substantially augmented version of Vallisnieri's work is in first issue, with pages 325-330 in uncorrected states. The first edition appeared as the second part of his Opere diverse published in 1715, and comprised only 87 pages. Specimen of prestigious origin, belonged to the famous antiquarian and English collector of the eighteenth century, Philip Carteret Webb. Sign of damp stain on the upper margin of some leaves, spine rebacked, good condition. Riccardi, II, 577, n. 2; Sabia, Le opere di A. V., nn. 189-190; Theories of the earth n 104 (Poletti imprint); Ward and Carozzi 2217 (Poletti imprint).
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