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Dissertatio Epistolica de Bombyce

Dissertatio Epistolica de Bombyce by Malpighi, Marcello - INVERTEBRATE ANATOMY

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Title
Dissertatio Epistolica de Bombyce
Author
Malpighi, Marcello - INVERTEBRATE ANATOMY
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Good; some modest overall toning and light spotting to several plates, text crisp and clear; binding worn, chafed, and taped alo
Description
London: J Martyn & J Allestry Regie Societatis Typographos, 1669. First Edition. Full contemporary calf.. Good; some modest overall toning and light spotting to several plates, text crisp and clear; binding worn, chafed, and taped along the backstrip; short, clean tears into four plates (no loss); very good margins throughout.. 4to, [10], 100 pp + 12 engraved folding plates. Contemporary engraved bookplate of the Viscount of Scudmore with a shelf mark in ink. Initial and final blank present. "Malpighi's work on the silkworm represents the first monograph on an invertebrate and records one of the most striking pieces of research work on his part. He dissected the silkworm under the microscope with great skill and observed its intricate structure; before the appearance of this work the silkworm was believed not to have internal organs" (G-M #293). "In de Bombyce Malpighi had carefully observed the artisan nature construct each of the three stages - larva, chrysalis, and moth - through which the silkworm is formed. He further remarked on the specific apparatuses with which the silkworm is provided, among them the air ducts (tracheae) and the blood duct with a number of pulsating centers (corcula)" (DSB IX, p.65). Frati #20; Norman #1428; Wing M-349.
Les Noirs D’Après des Documents Officiels. Préface du Génèral Mangin

Les Noirs D’Après des Documents Officiels. Préface du Génèral Mangin by Séché, Alphonse

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Title
Les Noirs D’Après des Documents Officiels. Préface du Génèral Mangin
Author
Séché, Alphonse
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Payot & Cie, 1919, "troisieme mille", octavo, [6] [7] - 256, [2 blank] pp., original yellow printed paper wrappers, some dustiness to wraps, else very good. Important Source Book for W. E. B. Du Bois' The Black Man and the Wounded World This book was an important source book for W. E. B. Du Bois' The Black Man and the Wounded World: A History of the Negro Race in the World War and After, the work was of great personal importance to Du Bois, however, it remained unfinished. In the years during and immediately following World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois was deeply involved in organizing and writing a multi-volume work on the role of African Americans in the American Expeditionary Force. He hoped that African-Americans, through their participation in the conflict, would finally achieve their full rights of citizenship in the country they helped to defend. As Du Bois progressed on his work, he expanded his hopes that the participation of the soldiers of the African diaspora in the European conflict would result in the end of colonialism in Africa and better treatment for members of the African diaspora worldwide. The book also influenced Du Bois' own burgeoning Pan African movement which engaged him simultaneously, organizing two Pan-African Congresses in Paris and Lisbon. Part of this inspiration came from the book offered here. Alphonse Séché was a well-known Parisian journalist, poet, and playwright. He had commanded a regiment of Senegalese soldiers during the war. The book offered here is a combination memoir, history, and propaganda concerning the place of African soldiers in post-war French colonial life. The book has a preface by Séché's friend Charles Mangin, the architect of the French Force Noir. The book is not without its issues, including a paternalistic tone which falls flat today, but for Du Bois Séché's book had one major practical conclusion: "The war has revealed a new factor in French power, The Black Army, whose general valor, as much European, as Colonial, tested now, can no longer be doubted." For Du Bois the book was proof and served to countermand the disdain for Black troops exhibited by their white officer corps – something Du Bois saw first-hand and bitterly resented. Vindication of the African American soldier was the motivation behind Du Bois' work. For a complete study of Du Bois's efforts to complete his work see the recent excellent study by Chad L. Williams, The Wounded World W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) For Williams's treatment of Séché's work see pages 234-235.

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