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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 / By George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, and optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Oblong QH271.A35 1787 Atlas (atlas)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, George, 1750-1795.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Microscopy--Early works to 1800.
- Microscopy.
- Microscopes--Early works to 1800.
- Microscopes.
- Insects.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lindsay, E. (autograph)
- Kanmacher, F. (autograph) (atlas)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 724 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm (4to) and atlas of 32 plates. ; 29 x 42 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the author, by Robert Hindmarsh, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, No. 32, Clerkenwell-Close ; and sold by the author, at his Shop, Tycho Brahe's Head, No. 60, Fleet-Street, M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]
- Local Notes:
- Atlas of plates is 2nd ed. enlarged by Frederich Kanmacher. T.-p. of atlas wanting.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T8505.
- OCLC:
- 14856673
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