Opera posthuma, in quibus excellentissimi authoris vita continetur, ac pleraque quae ab ipso priùs scripta aut inventa sunt confirmantur, & ab adversariorum objectionibus vindicantur. Quibus praefixa est ejusdem vita a seipso scripta
Opera posthuma is a posthumous collection of works by the Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi, published in Amsterdam in 1700 by D. Donati for a medical readership. Its numbered copperplate pages show dense botanical and anatomical specimens drawn in fine line with lettered keys, offering a designer examples of precise scientific plate layout and labelled diagram structure.
