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MALPHIGHI, Marcelli (1628-94). Opera Omnia, Figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis Illustrata... MALPHIGHI, Marcelli (1628-94). Opera Omnia, Figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis Illustrata Tomis Duobus Comprehensa. Quorum Catalogum sequens Pagina exhibet. London: Thomas Sawbridge, 1686. Folio (366 x 234mm). 3 parts bound in 2 volumes, folio (369 x 235mm). 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 3 titles printed in red and black, engraved arms of the Royal Society on the first title, engraved portrait, 141 engraved plates, of which 7 of smaller size (2 titles detached from vol. II, variable spotting, staining and browning, some worming and wormtracks mainly to margins but occasionally affecting plates). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces and 6 raised bands (rather worn, joints split, heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Repasado Completo" (later pencil inscription on front pastedowns of both vols.). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Although the pagination re-starts with each new section, the signatures mostly run through both volumes in sequence. Plate counts vary for this work; the present copy has complete sequences of plate numbering. "This collection of Malpighi's works contains his famed work on the anatomy of plants, the embryonic development of the chick, the anatomy of the silkworm (the first monograph on an invertebrate), and one of his greatest contributions: the discovery of the existence of capillaries, which completed the chain of the circulation of the blood postulated by Harvey." (Heirs of Hippocrates). "Malpighi was the founder of Histology and the greatest of the microscopists ... He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in the Malpighian bodies ..." (Garrison & Morton). Brunet III, 248; Garrison & Morton 66; Heirs of Hippocrates 574 (citing the 2nd ed.); Krivatsy 7324; Wing M342a, M644, M352. (2)