Opusculorum Pars Prior, sive Experimenta circa Generationem Insectorum ad Illustrem Virum Carolum Dati. Accedit J. Frid. Lachmund De Ave Diomedea Dissertatio. ;[Bound With]: De Ave Diomedea Dissertatio, cum Verd ejus effigie eri incifa, ex Muteo. D. Friderici Lachmuns Hildesheim. . 40p., [vi] index.

32mo, 12,3cm, [trimmed}., edition., Volumine Primo. [12],216,[25 plates on 50 pages], [20p.,(index) & 40p., [vi],index. with full copper engraved half title, & 10 copper engraved folded and folding maps, and 25 signal plate illustrations, in contemporary full calf, real raised bands, full gilt decorations in the panels, faded gilt title, original marbled endpapers, some slight shelf wear on the boards, spine stamping fading and some wear, internall clean and fine, a very good copy (sc.ds). Title in English: The First Part of the Works, or Experiments on the Generation of Insects, Given to the Illustrious Man Carolus. Added by J. Frid. Lachmund De Ave Diomedea Dissertatio. Francesco Red, 1626 1697, was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.