SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro. Tracts on the Nature of Animals and Vegetables, Edinburgh: printed [by David Willison] for William Creech, Ar. Constable, T. Cadell, D. Davies and J. White, 1799.

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SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro. Tracts on the Nature of Animals and Vegetables, Edinburgh: printed [by David Willison] for William Creech, Ar. Constable, T. Cadell, D. Davies and J. White, 1799.

8°, 6 folding engraved plates (plates heavily spotted, a few light spots in the text, marginal stain on C3v), contemporary half calf (worn). Provenance: Montrose Library, bookplate.

Fourth edition in English of Spallanzani's later confutation of the theory of spontaneous generation, first published in Italian in 1776. Blake p. 427.