THE MASTER OE PHOTO-MICROGRAPHY 
270. WOODWARD, J(OSEPH) J(ANVIER). Photo- 
micrographs of the Mosquito, &c. Washington(?): 
Army Medical Museum, 1872 $4000.00 
Small folio, orig. half morocco, cloth sides with title 
printed in gilt on front cover. With 4 printed leaves of 
text and 34 mounted albumen micro-photographs (160 x 
160 mm), each on a printed card mount with gold 
border and combined manuscript and printed caption. 
In very fine condition throughout. 
A rare series of very beautiful micro-photographs of insects, e.g. the 
mosquito, bed bug, head louse, dog louse, soldier beetle, beetle, 
parasite fly, wine cellar fly, water bug, etc. These images are approxi- 
mately 6 inches on a side and are of startling beauty; though they were 
originally made in the aid of science, we see them today as art. Wood- 
ward was the foremost practitioner of his craft . . . “the foremost 
place among those who have aided in this progress will readily be con- 
ceded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Woodward, a distinguished surgeon 
in the United States Army, whose photographs of difficult test- 
diatoms and of artificially ruled lines will long serve as models which 
less accomplished microscopists can scarcely hope to equal . . .” 
(Sternberg, Photomicrographs , p 2). The D.A.B. states that Wood- 
ward attained an international reputation in photo-micrography. This 
volume is very rare; there were probably no more than 25 and at most 
50 copies prepared. 
