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How to use a microscope View picture(s) 1 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. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Entomology  Microscopy  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The hydra viridis under the miscroscope View picture(s) 2 BAKER, Henry. Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du polype, insecte. Traduit de l'anglois par P. Demours. Paris, Durand, 1744. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt in compartments, with red title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled edges. With woodcut headpieces and 2 folding tables (530 x 85 and 460 x 310 mm). VIII, 359 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Entomology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Insects and their metamorphoses in contemporary hand-colouring View picture(s) 3 L'ADMIRAL, Jacob. Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes. Amsterdam, Johannes Sluyter, 1774. Folio. 19th-century half calf, boards covered with speckled paper, gold-tooled spine. With etched vignette on title-page, and 33 full-page numbered etched plates, all in contemporary handcolouring. [4], 34, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Entomology  Illustrated Books  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare fundamental study of coleoptera with 134 attractively coloured plates View picture(s) 4 LACORDAIRE, Jean Théodore and Félicien CHAPUIS. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Paris, Roret, 1854-1876. 12 parts in 14 vols. (text) and 1 atlas volume. 8vo. Uniformly bound in half red morocco by A. GUYOT. Atlas with 134 hand-coloured engraved plates, interleaved with tissue-paper. Full description >> Related Subjects: Entomology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic arachnological treatise in German View picture(s) 5 LISTER, Martin. Naturgeschichte der Spinnen überhaupt und der Engländischen Spinnen insonderheit aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt, und mit Anmerkungen vermehrt von D. Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini nach dessen Handschrift aber zum Druck befördert und mit neuen Zufäßen versehen von Johann August Ephraim Goeze. Quedlinburg, Blankenburg, Christoph August Reußner, 1778. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards, red gilt title label on spine, red edges. With five full-page engraved plates with spiders. (3), IV-XXVIII, 302, (13) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Entomology  German  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A detailed study of the botfly, with 6 hand-coloured plates View picture(s) 6 NUMAN, Alexander. Waarnemingen omtrent de horzel-maskers, welke in de maag van het paard huisvesten. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1834. 4to. Contemporary stiff grey wrappers. With 6 hand-coloured engraved plates (1 folding, 5 full-page) by D. Sluyter after H. van Oort. [2], 143, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Entomology  Horses & Horsemanship  Veterinary Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Using spiders to predict the weather, leading to French victory in the Netherlands View picture(s) 7 QUATREMERE DISJONVAL, Denis Bernard. Neueste Entdeckungen über die Natur der Spinnen und vorzüglich über deren Verhältniß mit den Veränderungen in der Atmosphäre, in wie fern sie nämlich die Beschaffenheit der Witterung voraus anzeigen. Aus dem französischen der zweiten Ausgabe frei übersetzt. Berlin, Leipzig, (no publisher), 1801. Small 8vo. Original boards with red gilt title label on spine. 148 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Entomology  Germany  Natural History  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The dehydration of a coniferous forest View picture(s) 8 TRZEBITZKY, Franz Xaver. Physikalisch-ökonomische Bemerkungen über die sich so sehr verbreitende Trockniß de Nadelwaldungen nebst Vorbauungs- und Hülfsmitteln darwider. Zweite Auflage. Prague, Heer, Ökonomisch-patriotischen Gesellschaft in Böhmen, Heerschen Buchhandlung, 1809. 8vo. Contemporary boards. With 3 folding engraved plates, contemporary handcoloured (numbered X-XII). (4), 59 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Butterflies  Entomology  Forestry  Germany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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