JOBLOT, Louis (1645-1723). Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes… avec des nouvelles observations faites sur une multitude innombrable d'insectes, & d'autres animaux de diverses especes. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1718.
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JOBLOT, Louis (1645-1723). Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes, tant simples que composez, avec des nouvelles observations faites sur une multitude innombrable d'insectes, & d'autres animaux de diverses especes, qui naissent dans les liqueurs preparees, & dans celles qui ne le sont point. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1718.
2 parts in one volume, 4to (248 x 185 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, first leaf of text engraved, 34 engraved plates. (Some minor browning or spotting, a few rust spots.) Contemporary specked calf, spine gilt. Provenance: Dom. S. Aloys. Cantiliac S. J. (stamp on title-page); L. M. (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TREATISE ON PROTZOA. Though Joblot is better-known for his work with microscopes from the 1754 edition of this work, this first edition of his Descriptions "established Joblot as the first French microscopist. The first part of the book described several microscopes and their construction and introduced some improvements, including the use of stops (diaphragms) in compound microscopes to correct for chromatic aberration" (DSB). Nissen ZBI 2113.
Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch
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