Micrographia illustrata :. or, The knowledge of the microscope explain'd : together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope ... Also an account of the principal microscopical discoveries... To which is added a translation of Mr. Joblott's Observations on the animalcula ... and ... The fresh water polype, translated from the French treatise of Mr. Trembley .. This work is compiled for the assistance of those who are desiderous of surveying the extensive beauties of the minute creation, and is illustrated with 65 copper-plates, curiously engrav'd, which contain above 650 pictures of microscopic objects /
George Adams (1709 - 1772)
Category
Books
Date
1746
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3209842
Summary
Bibliographic description
16, 263, [1] p., 65 leaves of plates ;. 4to. Small paper label at head of spine: W. Binding: eighteenth-century full polished sprinkled calf; double gold fillets; red spine label: Adams's Micrograph Illustrata.
Makers and roles
George Adams (1709 - 1772) Robert S. Whipple (1871 - 1953) Thomas Champney Louis Joblot (1645-1723) Abraham Trembley (1710-1784)