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Baker’s microscope.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 45. no. 27, as above.
BAKER,
Henry.
The Microscope made easy: or, I. The Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers of the best Kinds of Microscopes described, calculated,
and explained . . . II. An Account of what surprizing Discoveries have been already made by the Microscope . . . And also
a great Variety of new Experiments and Observations, pointing out many uncommon Subjects for the Examination of the Curious.
By Henry Baker . . . Illustrated with Copper Plates. The
Third Edition: with an additional Plate of the Solar Microscope, and some farther Accounts of the Polype . . .
London: Printed for
R. Dodsley, and sold by
M. Cooper and
J. Cuff,
1744.
QH271 .B2
8vo. 174 leaves: [ ]
1, A-X
8, Y
5, folded engraved plates.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Roper,
Catalogue of Works on the Microscope, page 10, no. 2.
See the previous number. The first edition of the
Microscope made Easy was printed in 1743.
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Adams on the microscope.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 45. no. 26, as above.
ADAMS,
George.
Micrographia Illustrata: or the Microscope explained, in several new Inventions, particularly of a new Variable Microscope
for examining all sorts of minute objects; and also of a new Camera Obscura Microscope . . . with a Description of all the
other Microscopes now in use. Likewise a Natural History of Aerial, Terrestrial, and Aquatic Animals, &c. considered as microscopic
objects. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty. The
Fourth Edition. Illustrated with seventy-two copper plates, containing 560 delineations of various microscopic objects.
London: Printed for the Author,
1771.
QH271 .A3
8vo. 201 leaves; 71 full page and folded plates by various engravers.
Roper,
Catalogue of Works on the Microscope, page 5, no. 2.
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Pamphlets in the Library of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 1.
Entered without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
George Adams, 1720-1773, mathematical instrument maker to King George III. The first edition of this work, frequently reprinted, was published
in 1746.
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Ricerche Fisiche del Fontana.
8
vo.
Vipere e anguillette del Fontana.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 46. no. 24, Vipere e Anguillette del Fontaria. 8vo.
FONTANA,
Felice.
Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera, con alcune osservazioni sopra le anguillette del grano sperone. Di Felice Fontana Roveretano . . .
Lucca: nella stamperìa di
J. Giusti,
1767.
First Edition. 8vo. 93 leaves; no copy was seen for collation.
Agassiz I, 444, no. 2.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, v, 49.
For a note on Fontana see no. 919. His treatises on the venom of the viper were the starting point of the modern investigation of that subject.
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