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ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Essays on the Microscope, containing a Practical Description of the most improved Microscopes. London: Dillon and Keating, 1798.

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ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Essays on the Microscope, containing a Practical Description of the most improved Microscopes. London: Dillon and Keating, 1798.

4to (272 x 212 mm). Half-title; engraved allegorical frontispiece, several wood-engraved illustrations; 36 engraved plates on 32 sheets; 16pp. publisher's advertisements. (Some spotting or staining.) Contemporary calf gilt, green morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spine).

Second edition, with plates and text bound together in one volume, of Adams work on Microscopes. Adams invented the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope.

Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch

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