265 - Microscopy.- LeeuwenhoekÂ(Antony van)ÂSend-Brieven, Zoo aan de Hoog Edele Heeren van de Koninklyke Societeit te Londen, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 31 plates, some folding, text correction pasted to errata, a couple of marginal repairs, contemporary boards, rubbed, 4to, Delft, Adriaan Beman,Â1718.

Microscopy.- LeeuwenhoekÂ(Antony van)ÂSend-Brieven, Zoo aan de Hoog Edele Heeren van de Koninklyke Societeit te Londen, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 31 plates, some folding, text correction pasted to errata, a couple of marginal repairs, contemporary boards, rubbed, 4to, Delft, Adriaan Beman,Â1718. ***ÂFirst edition. "... Dutch pioneer in microscopy, the first to see and describe Bacteria, Red Blood Corpuscles, Spermatozoa" (Horblit 65). A complete set of the second series of Leeuwenhoek's famous letters ("Send-brieven", numbered I-XLVI) to the Royal Society of London which is the last volume of his collected work. The attractive frontispiece by J. Goeree shows the portrait of Leeuwenhoek held by an angel.