Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl' insetti
By: fatte da Francesco Redi, Accademico della Crusca, e da lui scritte in una lettera all' illustrissimo Signor Carlo Dati
Contributors: Smarrito, 1619-1675, correspondent; Burndy Library; Accademia della Crusca
Published: 1668
Language: ita
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Insects; Spontaneous generation; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Esperien. int. agl' insetti di Francesco Redi
Notes: Title printed in red and black.

Engraved title vignette (device of the Accademia della Crusca), with motto: Il più bel fior ne coglie.

Page numbers 87 and 88 are each duplicated once (with different text from the first occurences) in the pagination sequence. The numbers 95 and 96 are omitted from the pagination sequence without loss of text.

There are 28 numbered leaves of plates inserted between pages 208-209. According to Razzolini, some copies have 29 numbered plates.

Additional unnumbered plates are counted as part of the pagination sequence.

Errata on page 228.

Includes index.

Signatures: pi3 A-2D⁴ 2E⁶.

Morton, L.T. Medical bibliography (Garrison and Morton), 97

Horblit, H.D. One hundred books famous in science, 88

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 3319

Razzolini, Bibliografia dei testi di lingua a stampa citati dagli Accademici della Crusca, pages 286-287

Dibner Library. Heralds of science, 188

Burndy Library. Heralds of science, 188

SCDIRB copy 39088003139474 is bound with: Steno, NIcolaus. Nicolai Stenonis De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus. Florentiae : Ex typographia sub signo Stellae, MDCLXIX [1669]. Bound together subsequent to publication.

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has a partially removed (washed) old handwritten inscription in ink appears at the bottom of the title page. There is an old shelfmark ("168") for an unidentified former owner's library at the foot of the spine.

SCDIRB copy has an old beige textured paperboard binding with smooth paper spine; with the title inked on the spine. There are 28 numbered plates inserted between pages 208 and 209.