Biologie - Zoologie - - Swammerdam, J.

Biology - Zoology - - Swammerdam, J. Bybel der Natuure ... of Historie der Insecten/ Biblia Naturae; sive historia insectorum. Accedit praefatio, in qua vitam auctoris descripsit H. Boerhaave. Latinam versionem adscripsit H. D. Gaubius. 2 volumes. With 4 engraved title vignettes and 53 (52 folding) copper plates. Leiden, van der Aa, 1737-1738. 24 pp, 362 (recte 360) , 124 pp, 18 pp; double title, 6 pp, pp (367)-910. 37 x 23.5 cm. Full leather bindings of the period with gilt-stamped spine title and rich spine gilt (Volume 1: corners bumped, capitals with narrow lacks, front joint slightly cracked at top and bottom. - Volume 2: capitals with small missing parts). First edition with Dutch-Latin parallel text, published posthumously by Boerhaave. - Nissen ZBI 4055 - Horn-Schenkling 21797 - Dibner 191 - Norman 2037 - Lindeboom, Boerhaave 566. - "Indubitably the foundation of our modern knolwedge of the structures, metamorphosis and classification of insects. Swammerdam's anatomy of the honey-bee is the first comprehensive account of that much-investigated animal" (Cole, Comparative anatomy 285ff.). - Pre-title of Part 1 bound between pp. 360 and 361. - Very clean and nearly spotless. *