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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 seventy-nine animalcula, with a concise catalogue of interesting objects : a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope

1787

Adams, George, 1750-1795

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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 seventy-nine animalcula, with a concise catalogue of interesting objects : a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope

Adams, George, 1750-1795

1787

statement of responsibility: by George Adams The frontispiece is signed: T.S. Duché pinxit. The plates were drawn by T. Milne or R. Laurie, and engraved by Jn. Lodge, Goodnight, J. Wigley, or Bonles Diamond-shaped tail-pieces featuring embedded lines of text: R. Hindmarsh, printer, 1787 The folded plates are numbered 1-31, plus "26A." Double plate numbers on single leaves (each counted as one leaf of plates) include: 2A-B; 7A-B; 23A-B; and 24A-B Page 451 is misnumbered as 154; page 696 is misnumbered as 692 Press figures Errata on p. 724 citation/reference: Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 5 citation/reference: ESTC (online) T8505 additional physical form: Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1986. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6015, no. 02 Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xviii) and index Blake, J. NLM 18th cent ESTC (online) SCDIRB copy 39088001888080 has the ownership stamp of Robert Newman, Old Charlton, Kent on the verso of the frontispiece. There are a few brief pencilled annotations in the margins SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner SCDIRB copy has an old gilt-tooled full leather binding with raised bands, red spine label, faux marbled endpapers, and a black silk ribbon page marker

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