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

Title Variants

Alternative: Adams, Essays on the microscope

Alternative: Microscopical essays

By

Adams, George, 1750-1795

Duché, Thomas Spence, 1763-1790 , illustrator
Milne, T., active 1787- , illustrator
Lodge, John, 1796 , engraver
Goodnight, active 1787- , engraver
Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836 , engraver
Wigley, James, 1700-1782 , engraver
Bonles, T., active 1787- , engraver
Hindmarsh, Robert, 1759-1835 , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Prined for the author, by Robert Hindmarsh ... and sold by the author, at his shop, Tycho Brahe's Head, no. 60, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXXVII [1787]

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

Subjects

1787 , Adams , Animalcules , Early works , Early works to 1800 , England , Insects , London , Mezzotints , Microorganisms , Microscopes , Microscopy , Publishers' advertisements

Call Number

QH271 .A2 1787

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.82299
OCLC: 1560930