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 ..

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Notes: 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.; Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 5; ESTC (online) T8505; Also reproduced on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1986. The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6015, no. 02.; Also available 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.; Elecresource

Author: Adams, George 1750-1795
illustrator: Duché, Thomas Spence 1763-1790; Milne, T. active 1787
engraver: Lodge, John -1796; Goodnight active 1787; Laurie, Robert 1755-1836; Wigley, James 1700-1782; Bonles, T. active 1787
former owner: Newman, Robert DSI
printer: Hindmarsh, Robert 1759-1835
donor: Burndy Library DSI

Type: Early works to 1800; Mezzotints; Publishers' advertisements; Early works

Physical description: xxiii, [1], 724 pages, [1], 31 [i.e. 32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)