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 of the Hydrae and Vorticellae: a description of three hundred and seventy-nine animalcula, with a concise catalogue of interesting objects : a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope
by George Adams
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Microscopes, Early works to 1800, Microorganisms, Insects, Microscopy, AnimalculesShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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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 of the Hydrae and Vorticellae: a description of three hundred and seventy-nine animalcula, with a concise catalogue of interesting objects : a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope
1787, Prined for the author, by Robert Hindmarsh ... and sold by the author, at his shop, Tycho Brahe's Head, no. 60, Fleet-Street
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The frontispiece is signed: T.S. Duché pinxit. The plates were drawn by T. Milne or R. Laurie, and engraved by Jn. Lodge, Goodnight, J. Wigley, or Bonles.
Diamond-shaped tail-pieces featuring embedded lines of text: R. Hindmarsh, printer, 1787.
The folded plates are numbered 1-31, plus "26A." Double plate numbers on single leaves (each counted as one leaf of plates) include: 2A-B; 7A-B; 23A-B; and 24A-B.
Page 451 is misnumbered as 154; page 696 is misnumbered as 692.
Press figures.
Errata on p. 724.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xviii) and index.
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 5
ESTC (online) T8505
Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1986. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6015, no. 02.
SCDIRB copy 39088001888080 has the ownership stamp of Robert Newman, Old Charlton, Kent on the verso of the frontispiece. There are a few brief pencilled annotations in the margins.
SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
SCDIRB copy has an old gilt-tooled full leather binding with raised bands, red spine label, faux marbled endpapers, and a black silk ribbon page marker.
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