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Lot 285: BAKER, HENRY.

Est: £400 GBP - £600 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 10, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Employment for the microscope, in two parts. I. An examination of salts and saline substances, their amazing configurations and crystals, as formed under the eye of the observer... II. An account of various animacules never before described, and of many other microscopical discoveries. London: for R. Dodsley, 1742

Condition Note:

8vo (207 x 122mm.), xiv, 442, [10]pp., illustration : woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 17 folding engraved plates, binding : contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece, extremities slightly rubbed

Artist or Maker

Literature

Cole 1460; Wellcome II, p.89

Notes

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed opposite title-page, "From the Author to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield".

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