Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses : with observations and inquiries thereupon / by R. Hooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microscopes--Early works to 1800.

Microscopes.

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Penn Provenance:

Bledsoe, Theodore R., M.D. (donor)

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered pages, 246 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 38 leaves of plates : illustrations (some folded) ; 31 cm + introduction (12 pages ; 27 cm)

Manufacture:

Weiler im Allgäu [Germany] : Druckerei Holzer.

Other Title:

Micrographia

Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Editions Medicina Rara, [1975?]

Notes:

Reprint of 1667 London ed. from a copy in Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

"Twenty-three hundred copies have been bound in half-leather ... numbered in arabic numerals 1-2300"--Colophon.

Five hundred copies have been bound in full leather ... they have been numbered in Roman numerals I-D.

Introduction Includes bibliographical references (page 12).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare has copy XX. In slipcase.

Penn Libraries Rare copy without 12 page introduction.

OCLC:

238533066