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J & A Churchill, 1875. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1875. Fifth edition. 848 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional heavy marks and staining. Small hole in spine.
THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS REVELATIONS : Illustrated By 370 Wood Engravings by Carpenter, William B - 1857
by Carpenter, William B
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THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS REVELATIONS : Illustrated By 370 Wood Engravings
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London: John Churchill, 1857. Decorative Cloth. Near Good. Second Edition, title page dated 1857. Interesting volume from "Churchil's Series of Manuals. Well illustrated with In-Text engraved illustrations. Contents include Construction of the Microscope; Accessory Apparatus, Management of the Microscope, Preparation, Mounting & Collection of Objects and chapters on the Natural History observations. Green cloth cover with Blind stamped decoration to front & rear. Spine has blind stamped linear divisions with Gilt title in 2nd compartment. Fore and Bottom Page Edges untrimmed. 719 Pages, 690g, 7" Tall. Some wear to cloth, especially at corners. A few very small pieces of cloth missing around spine edges (see photo). Previous owner's inscription & stamp on title page. Pages in nice, clean condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Microscope And Its Revelations
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London. : J. & A. Churchill. , 1881. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Good. Recently rebound in cloth and with new endpapers. A touch of foxing to first and last few leaves. Illustrated by 26 plates and 500 wood-engravings. xxxii and 882pp.
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London: John Churchill, 1857. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition of a very popular introductory work. Illustrated with 370 wood engravings. xix, 719 pages. Chipping at the top of the spine, else very good. Previous owners' names inside.
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London: J. and A. Churchill, 1881. Hardcover. Very good. Sixth edition. Illustrated with 26 plates and 500 wood engravings. xxxii, 882 pages, plus ads. Chipping at the top of the spine, else very good. Previous owners' names inside along with a modern gift inscription in ink (why????).
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London: John Churchill. G+ : in Good condition plus. Spine sunned. Book-plate on paste-down. All edges marbled. 1862. Third Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). xxiv, 792pp. Plates and nearly 400 wood engravings. .
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London: J & A Churchill. In which the first seven chapters have been entirely rewritten and the text throughout reconstructed, enlarged and revised by W.H.Dallinger. 20 colour & black and white plates plus a frontis. Numerous cell & germ illustrations and interesting scientific instruments also illustrated. A large thick volume (1099 pages) inc useful index, plus 11 page publishers catalogue bound-in at the rear. Publishers dark green cloth, titled gilt on spine. Very minor wear to corners / edges otherwise has survived remarkably well. . Very Good. Hardcover. 7th edition. 1891.
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J. & A. Churchill, 1901. Hardback. Very Good. Eighth edition hardback, 1901, with no jacket. Ex library book, only a couple of the usual stamps and markings, no pages removed. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards a touch rubbed. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - previous owners name and address label to front pastedown; light spotting to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. This book is both large (215mm x 160mm, 1181pp plus publishers catalogue to rear) and heavy (2.5kg)
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London: J. & A. Churchill, 1891. (Seventh edition in which the first seven Chapters have been entirely rewritten and the text throughout reconscruted, enlarged and revised by W.H. Dallinger)
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New York, William Wood & Company, 1883, sixth edition. . original red cloth, decorated in black, gilt spine title lettering, a short tear at joint is repaired, else a fine, clean, unmarked set. . 8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; 2 volumes, xi, 388; iv, 354 pp, color lithographed (chromolithograph) frontis, 25 plates plus 502 illus including many of microscopes and related equipment, index. . The work was a standard reference and underwent many printings over the years. Very well-illustrated, this edition having been expanded with additional topics including the use of the microscope in geology and with additional illustrations, earlier editions having only ten plates and much fewer illustrations. Of particular interest are the many illustrations of microscopes and related equipment, accessories. This chapter has a appendix on Numerical Aperture and Angular Aperature. An excellent copy, this is considered the best illustrated edition. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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London: John Churchill, 1857. 719pp, [1]. With 370 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, marked, and bumped. Hinges exposed, near contemporary ink gift inscription to recto of FFEP. An exhaustive, profusely illustrated monograph on microscopy by biologist and university administrator William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885). . Second edition. 8vo.
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