Illustrated, engraved half title dated 1685.

An issue with uncorrected "inanimarum" and "nebeficio" on the title page.

In Latin, translated from the Dutch.

Added engraved half-title page: "Epistolµ Antonii áa Leeuwenhoek", signed: "R de Hooghe amico suo D.D. 1685"--Cf. Dobell 8 (Dutch title erased).

Woodcut title vignettes (publisher's device), initials, tail-piece.

Contains Letters 43, 42, 38; 28-31, 34-36, 46, 47, 44, 45, 48-52.

Pages 1, 4-5, 57-61, and 62-64, first section, misnumbered 3, 6-7, 49-53, and 56-58 respectively; numbers 231 and 232 repeated in pagination, second section.

Signatures: *p4 sA-Hp4 s2A-31p4 s3Kp2s.

Dobell, C. Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his little animals, 22

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SCNHRB copy (39088000544833) has "inanimarum" of title corrected in ink ms.

SCNHRB copy has booklabel with ms. name obliterated.

SCNHRB copy has inscribed in ink on front paste-down: Ric: Waller ex dono Authoris.

SCNHRB copy quarter bound in modern green paste-paper boards and green goatskin, title in gilt on spine, red sprinkled edges.

SCNHRB copy bound with (between first and second section): Continuatio epistolarum datarum ad longe celeberrimam Regiam Societatem Londinensem / ab Antonio de Leeuwenhoek, ejusdem societatis membro. Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Cornelium Boutestein ..., 1689. Bound together subsequent to publication.