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Bruxelles, Meline and Cans, 1840. Oblong folio (28.0 x 37.0 cm). Atlas with a 10 pp. explication des planches, and 22 engraved plates. In original green, printed wrappers. = The rare atlas of this important book being the first book of importance in which the microscope is employed in organic chemistry. See Duveen, and DSB. This atlas "troisième édition, entièrement refondue", refers to a text edition first published in Paris in 1833, with a second edition in 1838. We have never seen a third text edition. Usually this work is found in the 1833 octavo edition with 60 plates. This folio edition seems to be highly unusual. The author, François-Vincent Raspail (1794-1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, microscopist, medical doctor and socialist reformer. "Raspail was one of the founders of the cell theory in biology. He coined the phrase omnis cellula e cellula ("every cell is derived from a [preexisting] cell") later attributed to Rudolf Karl Virchow" (Wikipedia). Small inoffensive waterstain, some light, marginal fraying; otherwise very good. DSB vol.11 pp. 300-302; Duveen 496-467.