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AN EARLY MONOGRAPH ON PROTOZOA

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LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius.  Versuch zu einer grundlichen Vertheidigung derer Saamenthiergen; nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung derer leeuwenhoeckischen Mikroskopien und einem Entwurf zu einer vollständigern Geschichte des Sonnenmikroskopes, als besten Rechtfertigung derer leeuwenhoeckischen Beobachtungen.
Nuremberg, G.P. Monath, 1758. 4to. With 6 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary wrappers. 

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(8), 52 pp. Cole 1694; Dobell, p. 412; Nissen, ZBI 2412. 
An early essay on Infusiora and Protozoa, written as a defence of his earlier publicationPhysicalische Beobachten derer Saamenthiergens  published in 1765. This is one of Ledermüller's rarest publications. Not in BMC NH . At the end a description of Leeuwenhoek's microscope with three plates.
Apart from some occasional foxing, a good copy.


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