HEURCK, Henri Ferdinand van (1838-1909). The Microscope: Its Construction and Management. London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1893.
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 9, 2021
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Nov 10, 2021
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Estimate
$300 -
$400
Sold for $344
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Lot Description
HEURCK, Henri Ferdinand van (1838-1909). The Microscope: Its Construction and Management. London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1893.
4to. Half-title; illustrated. Original publisher's green cloth gilt (hinges starting). Provenance: Keith Steel-Maitland (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Wynne E. Baxter. "The Fourth Edition of this book had only just appeared when Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, a skilfull English microscopist, honoured us by offering to publish an English Edition...Materials accumulated to such an extent that we may now issue the present volume, not as a translation of the Fourth Edition, but as being a really new Work--a Fifth Edition" (introduction). A BRIGHT COPY.
Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch
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