Essays On the Microscope
by Adams, George
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Essays on the microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits and oeconomy: an account of the various species, and singular properties, ...The second edition, with considerable additions and improvements, ...London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 1 text volume and 1 plates volume. Large 4to. With an allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia in the text volume and 32 numbered double-page plates (numbered I-XXXII) mounted on guards, printed from 36 copper plates (plates 2, 7, 23 and 24 each from 2 copper plates distinguished as A and B) with hundreds of figures showing microscopes, associated equipment and microscopic views of insects, microbes, shells and tissue samples. Uniform 20th-century dark blue morocco.
by ADAMS, George (Frederick KANMACHER, ed.).
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XVII, [7], 724, 14, 2 pp.Second edition of a detailed and thoroughly illustrated account of microscopes and their use by the famous London optician George Adams (1750-1795), mathematical instrument maker to King George III, first published in 1787, but here with both the text and illustrations greatly expanded. Adams earned a worldwide reputation as a maker of spectacles and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays on the Microscope; Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes; A General History of Insects, their Transformantions, Peculiar Habitats, and Oeconomy
by Adams, George [Jr]
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London: Printed by Dillon and Keating for the Editor; and for W. and S. Jones, 1787. xxiii, [1], [1-]722 (of 724), allegorical frontis, 32 engraved plates, text figs. . HB. 2 vols: Text: 4to (275x215mm), recent (20th century) half leather, marbled boards, raised bands. Lacks 4T2 (pp. 723-724, the final page of the 'Catalogue of Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments… Read more about this item Item Price
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Essays on the Microscope; Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.
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Essays on the Microscope; Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.
by George Adams
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Essays on the Microscope; Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.
by Adams, George
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