TREMBLEY, Abraham

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce, à bras en forme de cornes. Leyden, Verbeek, 1744. 4 parts in one. 4to. With 13 engraved folding plates by v.d. Schley and Lyonnet and 4 headpieces. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, a bit rubbed

      (16), 324 pp. BMC NH, 2136; Cole Libr., 1497; Nissen ZBI, 4163. Original edition of this treatise on the fresh water polyp mentioned but not studied by Leeuwenhoek. A second edition was published in Paris in the same year and the work was translated into English and German. The headpieces show Sorgvliet near The Hague where Trembley was the tutor of the children of Henry Bentinck, earl of Portland. Waterstain in the lower half of the first part, stamp erased from title page; binding somewhat rubbed.