Frederick kanmacher (2 resultados)
Más imágenesEditorial: Printed by Dillon and Keating for the Editor; and for W. and S. Jones, London 1798
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Librería: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, Estados Unidos de AmericaMoroccobound Fine Books, IOBA
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EUR 898,93
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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 2nd Edition. The second edition with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher. xvii, (7), 724 pp. with 32 plates. Lacking publisher's catalogue. Hardcover, rebound in morocco over marbled boards. The preliminary leaves and plates damp stained, the plates also with significant off…set; the text with light scattered foxing.
Más imágenesEditorial: Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones,, London, 1798
Librería: ASHER Rare Books, t Goy Houten, HolandaASHER Rare Books
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1 text volume and 1 plates volume. Second edition of a detailed and thoroughly illustrated account of microscopes and their use by the famous London optician George Adams (1750-1795), mathematical instrument maker to King George III, first published in 1787, but here with both the text and illustrations greatly expanded. Adams e…arned a worldwide reputation as a maker of spectacles and microscope lenses and wrote many scientific publications that give regular and systematic instruction in the most important branches of natural science with all its modern improvements, including the present one devoted to microscopes. With an owner's inscription of the Edinburgh Royal Society on the title-page of the text volume and an inscription, perhaps by the Glasgow professor of medicine, eye surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society Thomas Wharton Jones (1808-1891) on the first contemporary endpaper of the plates volume: "For the Royal Society Edinburgh from their . humble servant / Mr Jones". Bindings only very slightly worn. Frontispiece and title-page slightly foxed, also some foxing throughout the text volume. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC T88415; Hagen, p. 2; Horn & Schenkling 39; Nissen ZBI 24; Pritzel 18; cf. Poggendorff I, p. 10 (1787 ed.). Uniform 20th-century dark blue morocco, blind-stamped spine with title in gold, grey marbled sides, marbled endpapers and new endpapers, brown sprinkled edges. With an allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia in the text volume and 32 numbered double-page plates (numbered I-XXXII) mounted on guards, printed from 36 copper plates (plates 2, 7, 23 and 24 each from 2 copper plates distinguished as A and B) with hundreds of figures showing microscopes, associated equipment and microscopic views of insects, microbes, shells and tissue samples. Pages: XVII, [7], 724, 14, 2 pp.
