SAUSSURE, Horace Bénédict de. Observations on the Surface of Leaves

SAUSSURE, Horace Bénédict de. Observations on the Surface of Leaves and Petals. [Bound together] New Discoveries Made with Needham’s Microscope. A combination of two 18th-century natural history works: the rare first edition of Saussure’s debut work and the famous microscopic observations by Needham and Trembley (1747), complete with its 7 fold-out plates. A distillation of Enlightenment thought at the heart of the infinitely small! Geneva, n.p., 1762. In-12, fawn half-basane with corner

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