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How to use a microscope

ADAMS, George.
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 eighty-three animalcula: with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts, when under the microscope.


With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates.

With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates.

With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates.

With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates.

With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates.



Second edition, with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher, F.L.S. London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 2 vols. Large 4to. 20th-century blue half calf. With fine allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia, and 32 engraved plates. XVII, (7), 724, 14, 2 pp.

Second, considerably enlarged and improved, edition of this work on the use of the microscope. The microscope and its several parts are depicted on the plates, as well as examples of researched insects, tissues, etc. Most of the  plates were used for the first edition as well, but extra and improved plates are added to this edition. George Adams (1750-1795) was an optic and a mechanic in London, and he served the king as a mathematical instrument maker.

Fine copy.
Sotheran, Bibliotheca chemico-mathematica I, 5646; Horn-Schenkling 39; Porcheron p. 2; Hagen p. 2; Pritzel 18; Poggendorff I, 10.

Related Subjects: Chemistry  Entomology  Microscopy  Natural History  Science 

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