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The MICROSCOPE made easy : or, I. The nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes described, calculated, and explained: For the Instruction of such, particularly, as desire to search into the Wonders of the Minute Creation, tho' they are not acquainted with Optics. Together with Full Directions how to prepare, apply, examine, and preserve, all Sorts of Objects, and proper Cautions to be observed in viewing them. II. An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already made by the microscope: With useful Reflections on them. And also a great variety of new experiments and observations, pointing out many uncommon Subjects for the Examination of the Curious. ... llustrated with Copper Plates ...The Second Edition With an additional plate of the Solar Microscope, and some farther Accounts of the POLYPE
by Baker, Henry
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pall-mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row; and J. Cuff, Optician in Fleetstreet, 1743. Second Edition. Boards. Very Good. Second Edition. [2],xvi, [1]-98, [4], 99-311,[13-indices] pages. Pages 307 through index with stain in inner margins affecting text in a few places. With 14 numbered plates (I through XIV) plus the unnumbered folding plate of the solar microscope plus and one folding table. Eleven of the plates are folding. 8vo. Speckled...
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Historical Technology, Inc. Catalogue 103 Fall 1971
by Moskowitz, Saul
Marblehead, Massachusetts: Saul; Moskowitz Instrument Engineering / Historical Technology Inc, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 46 pages. Stapled self-wrappers. Contains 198 items. Staining, soiling, and creasing to the covers. Wraps. Saul's catalogues were well documented and typically include books, scientific instruments, maps, and the occasional painting or other oddity. Putting a complete set together has become increasingly hard over the years. Good scholarship, including list of...
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A$26.67
La methode graphique dans les sciences experimentales. Inscribed copy
by Marey, Etienne-Jules
Paris: Masson, 1878. Marey, Etienne-Jules (1830-1904). La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et principalement en physiologie et en médecine. xix, 673, [3, incl. errata]pp. Text illustrations. Paris: G. Masson, [1878]. 237 x 155 mm. Quarter cloth, mottled boards ca. 1878, remains of handwritten paper label on spine, light edgewear, spine a bit faded. Light to moderate foxing, but very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Marey to Gabriel Gustav Valentin (1810-83) on the half-title:...
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A$9,412.80
Weights and Measures and Their Marks: A Guide to Collecting (Shire Album)
by Graham, J. T.; Stevenson, Maurice
Shire Publications, 2002 8vo (21 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers.
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A$9.58
Les instruments des sciences dans l'art et l'histoire
by Michel, Henri
Bruxelles: Albert De Visscher, 1973 4to (29.5 cm), 204 pp. Toile d'éditeur sous jaquette (un petit manque sur la jaquette, intérieur en bon état) Bonne introduction à l'histoire de l'instrument scientifique. Divisé en 4 parties: Mesure de la Terre, Mesure du Ciel, Mesure du temps et Mesures physiques. Illustré de 104 planches en couleur. || Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (small tear top of dj). Good introduction into the history of scientific...
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A$34.48
Barometers (Shire Library)
by McConnell, Anita
Shire, 2008 8vo (21 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers. "Many people consult a barometer before going out, to see what the weather is likely to be. Barometers measure the general pressure of the atmosphere, which changes with the weather: falling pressure generally heralds rain; rising pressure predicts fine weather. The simple mercury barometer originated in seventeenth century Italy and was soon copied in France and Britain. In the nineteenth century demand increased for domestic and scientific...
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A$7.66
Catalogue AA. Microscopes, Objectives and Eyepieces
by E. Leitz
New York: E. Leitz Inc, 1921. Pamphlet. Very good. A catalog of microscope and attachments. Illustrated with black-and-white engravings. 47 pages. A very good to near fine copy, in stapled wrappers (pamphlet). With the price list ("No. 4", dated September 1, 1921) laid in.
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A$94.13
Common Objects of the Microscope
by Wood, J. G
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1900 12mo (17 cm), IV, 188 pp, 12 chromolithographic plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth, all edges gilt (some foxing to the title and the last page, bookplate of Albert Harrison). A very good copy of the classical microscope handbook.
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A$287.32
Journal of the Zeiss Historica Society, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2010
by Scott, John T. (editor)
Austin, TX: Zeiss Historica Society, 2010. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 24 pages. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Minor wear to the extremities. A nice clean copy. Wraps. The Zeiss Historica Society was founded by Thomas Schreiner, Charles Barringer, Jr. and (as noted in some of the society's journals) Lawrence J. Gubas. Subcribed to by Zeiss enthusiasts all over the world, the "objectives of the Society are the study of, and exchange of information on the significant...
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Views of the Microscopic World: Designed for General Reading, and As a Hand-Book for Classes in Natural Science
by Brocklesby, John
New York: Pratt, Woodford & Company, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The author's first book on microscopy. 146 pages plus [2] ads. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's original cloth.
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A$160.02
Evenings at the Microscope; or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life
by Gosse, Philip Henry
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1859. Hardcover. Very good. An early edition of one of the most popular books on microscopes in the 19th century. Illustrated with in-text engravings. xii, 506 pages. I have not located a copy with a date; the dating is based on the date in the preface. There is another, similar 1859 edition, also not dated except in the preface, with 510 pages and "R. Clay" noted as the printer on the back (verso) of the title page and also opposite the last page of...
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A$112.95
The History of the Microscope Compiled from Original Instruments and Documents, Up to the Introduction of the Achromatic Microscope
by Clay, Reginald S. and Thomas S. Court
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. xiv, 266 pages. 164 illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in the publisher's red fabrikoid binding.
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A$141.19
Traité élémentaire du microscope. Première partie, le microscope et son emploi
by Trutat, Eugene
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, Impremeur-Libraire, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A technical introduction to the microscope, including a section on projection microscopes. Illustrated with more than 170 engravings in the text. 322 pages. Text in FRENCH. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's russet cloth. Frontispiece tissue guard missing.
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A$141.19
Practical Photo-micrography
by Pringle, Andrew
London: Iliffe & Son, 1893. Hardcover. Very good. The success of the author's former, larger, more pretentious, and more expensive treatise on Photo-micrography, and the desire to put into the hands of wholly inexperienced workers a manual, brief, explicit, practical, and moderate in price, have led to the production of this book"-preface. This edition is undated (1893 is the date in the preface) Illustrated with in-text images of photographic equipment. 160, iv (ads) pages. With ads on the endpapers...
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The Microscope in Theory and Practice
by Naegeli, Carl and S. Schwendener
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An English translation from the German of the first seven (of ten) chapters of the 1877 edition of Das Mikroskop. The preface explains why this translation lacks the final three chapters: the manuscript and all but one copy of the printed edition were burned in a fire at the printers. The translation, by Frank Crisp and John Mayall Jr. had already consumed ten years, and the idea of starting all over on the last three...
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Historical Technology, Inc. Catalogue 105 Fall 1972
by Moskowitz, Saul
Marblehead, Massachusetts: Saul; Moskowitz Instrument Engineering / Historical Technology Inc, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 58 pages. Stapled self-wrappers. Contains 257 items. A bright clean copy with a few spots on the wrappers. Wraps. Saul's catalogues were well documented and typically include books, scientific instruments, maps, and the occasional painting or other oddity. Putting a complete set together has become increasingly hard over the years. Good scholarship,...
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A$34.51
Recent Advances in Microscopy: Biological Applications
by Piney, A. (editor)
London: J. and A. Churchill, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Subjects covered include microscopy of the living eye, the Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and chromosomes. 260 pages plus publisher's ads. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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A$94.13
How to Use the Microscope: A Guide for the Novice
by Hall, Charles
A. & C. Black, 1942 12mo (19.5 cm), front., VI, 90 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly stained, inscription on the front free endpaper, occasional foxing inside).
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A$9.58
The Arthur Frank Loan Collection : Early Scientific Instruments
by Nuttall, R. H
Glasgow: Charles Frank Limited, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 60 pp., 11-3/4 by 8 1/4 inches. Comb bound with original Special Exhibition Tools of Science brochure bound in. A well read copy, with mild denting, creasing and other signs of wear. Wraps. While not as well illustrated as we might want (common for books of this time) there are 808 instruments listed. It is worth owning to learn the scope of this portion of Franks collection and what was possible in the years Frank...
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A$61.18
Storia delle scienze. Gli strumenti. Edited by Gerard L' E. Turner
Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Arte, 1990 4to (29 cm), 594 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket and slipcase.
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A$143.66
Historical Technology, Inc. Catalogue 103 Fall 1971
by Moskowitz, Saul
Marblehead, Massachusetts: Saul; Moskowitz Instrument Engineering / Historical Technology Inc, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 46 pages. Stapled self-wrappers. Contains 198 items. A bright clean copy. Wraps. Saul's catalogues were well documented and typically include books, scientific instruments, maps, and the occasional painting or other oddity. Putting a complete set together has become increasingly hard over the years. Good scholarship, including list of cited references.
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A$34.51
Journal of the Zeiss Historica Society, Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 2009
by Scott, John T. (editor)
Austin, TX: Zeiss Historica Society, 2009. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 24 pages. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Minor wear to the extremities. A nice clean copy. The cover with three images of a Carl Zeiss "Pulfrich" refractometer. Wraps. The Zeiss Historica Society was founded by Thomas Schreiner, Charles Barringer, Jr. and (as noted in some of the society's journals) Lawrence J. Gubas. Subcribed to by Zeiss enthusiasts all over the world, the "objectives of the...
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The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872, by Professor Luigi Palmieri, of the University of Naples; Director of the Vesuvian Observatory. With notes, and an Introductory Sketch of the Present State of Knowledge of Terrestrial Vulcanicity, The Cosmical Nature and Relations of Volcanoes and Earthquakes. With Illustrations
by Palmieri, Luigi; Mallet, Robert
London: Asher & Co, 1873. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First English Edition. [4], [1]-148 pages + 8 plates (one folding). 8vo (9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches). Publisher's original brick cloth with gilt decoration of Eruption of Vesuvius 1872 on front panel. "Palmieri, Vesuvius" in gilt on spine. This copy has been expertly recased with original spine laid down and endpapers renewed. Bright and clean internally, noting remnants of a few old (dealer?) prices and other notations at head of title page....
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A Catalogue of Pneumatic Instruments Manufactured and Sold By N. B. & D. Chamberlain ; with Experiments Illustrated By Numerous Engravings and Notes WITH Hydrostatic and Hydraulic Apparatus WITH A Price Catalogue of Pneumatic Apparatus, Manufactured and Sold by N. B. & D. Chamberlain, Nos. 2 & 9 School Street
by Chamberlain, N. B. & D
Boston: Isaac R. Butts, 1844. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. [4], 56, 7, [1-blank], xiv pages. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, blind stamped design front and rear panels. Spine panel with gold lettering ''Pneumatic Experiments'' still bright and clean. 1/2 inch chip missing from head of spine panel. Base of spine panel and corners worn and with minor loss. Ex-library RPI (presented by Prof. Charles Drowne, properly deaccessioned) with institute bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and...
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A$1,294.26
Het Instrument in de Wetenschap. Bijdrage tot de instrumentgerichte wetenschapsgeschiedenis
by FOURNIER, M. & B. THEUNISSEN (eds.)
Amsterdam,: Rodopi,, 1988.. [iv], 163, [i] pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With numerous illustrations. Being the thematic issue of: Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurkunde, Wiskunde en Techniek, Vol. X, 4, 1987.
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A$26.34
