78/2346 Redi, F. Experimenta circa res diversas naturales, speciatim illas, quae ex Indiis adferuntur./ Observationes de viperis./ Epistola ad aliquas oppositiones factas in suas observationes circa viperas. Amst., A. Frisius, 1675, 3 parts in 1 vol., (2),193,(15); 111,(9); 72p., engr. frontisp. by C. DECKER, woodcut title-vignette, 11 (of 12) fold. engr. plates and 2 full-p. ills., contemp. vellum, 12mo. - BOUND (AS OFTEN) WITH: (Lachmund, F.). De Ave Diomedea Dissertatio, Cum Vera ejus effigie aeri incisa ex Museo Friderici Lachmund Hildesheim. Ibid., idem, 1674, 52,(6)p., 4 (of 5) (fold.) engr. plates.

- First part of first work lacks 1 plate and 2nd work lacks 1 plate; first part 3 plates soiled/ dam., partly repaired; all parts waterstained throughout; upper pastedown loose; upper hinge split. Binding soiled; vellum frontcover sl. dam.

= Ad 1: Written by the Italian scientist Francesco Redi (1626-1697), here in Latin translation. The first part describing various exotic animals and plants, illustrated with interesting plates, showing i.a. the "Coccus Maldivensis", an iguana and an armadillo. The last two parts deal with the extensive research Redi did into snake venom. "The first methodical work on snake-poison. Redi demonstrated for the first time that, for the poison to produce its effect, it must be injected under the skin." (Garrison/ Morton on the Italian edition of 1664). Nissen, ZBI 3322; DSB XI, p.341f; Wellcome IV, p.488; BMN II, p.217; Rahir 3269; cf. Garrison/ Morton 2102. Ad 2: The second work is an early monograph on the Albatros. Wellcome III, p.426; not in Nissen, IVB. SEE ILLLUSTRATION PLATE.