Common Objects Microscope by Wood Rev J G (20 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: Good. 1938. 3rd Edition. 184 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edn, 12mo, some wear to covers else VG, 12 cps and figures, missing fep, f/o stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. 184pp. + 14 colour plates. 7.5 x 5 inch. Still tightly bound, interior in very nice clean condition. Gilt titling to spine. No names nor inscriptions.

Condition: Fair. 1900. 2nd edition Revised Re-written. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Blue and green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Noticeable cracking to gutters and hinges, with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Previous owner's details obscured to front free endpaper. Inked name to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends. Scuffing to rear board with fraying to cloth. Gilt lettering is dulled.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. 186pp. 7.5 x 5 inch. Still well bound, interior in very nice clean condition. Gilt titling to spine still bright. No names nor inscriptions. coloured frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. x + (ii) +186pp, very well-illustrated by Tuffen West, hardcover, 8vo, bound in original publisher's pictorial boards showing a microscope and specimens on the front and a Rey's Cocoaadvert on the rear, black lettering to spine, Provenance: with the bookseller stamp of Broadhurst Clarkson & Co. within, binding a little rubbed but internally very good condition, George Routledge and Sons, London, circa 1897. WEST, Tuffen (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. The second edition revised and rewritten by E.C.Bousfield. Undated circa 1897 x, 186pp with 14 plates. Cover boards soiled. Sometime rebacked so binding good and tight. Tuffen West (illustrator).

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Circa 1890 Gilt titles and decorations to boards. Some spotting otherwise a tight very good copy. Attractive gilt decoration to front board. Edmund Evans (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 188 pages then eight pages of catalogue of microscopes. Tear to right top corner of spine board. Board discoloured: Are now a purplish brown. Oddly the illustrations of a moisture mark to the top right corner but the text pages do not. Almost as though the moisture was before the binding.…

George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. London. 1938. Revised edition. Hardback NO DW. Illustrated and with black and white frontis. Green cloth gilt boards are worn at the corners with some loss to head and tail of spine. Overall a lovely clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Loose binding. Many colour illus. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. The revised edition of John George Wood's popular handbook on specimens found under the microscope, with fifty new illustrations. The revised edition of Common Objects of the Microscope, a charming handbook detailing the various findings one can see under a microscope, written by natural history populariser John George Wood, and revised by biologist E.C. Bousefield. In the publisher's original blue and green cloth, with in-text illustrations, a colour frontispiece, eleven other colour plates, and two monochrome plates by British engraver and lithographer Tuffen West. Collated complete. Due to the great progress within science after the first publication, Bousefield felt it necessary to update the information while retaining the enthusiasm and charm from Wood's popular original. The updated version includes fifty new illustrations, and particular revision to the pond-life section of the work. In the publisher's original blue and green cloth. Externally, smart, with a couple of faint marks to board extremities. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Minor rubbing to edges. Faint offsetting to free end papers and faint spots to pastedowns. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free end paper. Internally, firmly bound, with minor wear between p.128 and plate. Faint creases to title leaf. Pages are bright and clean with minor age toning. Very Good. Tuffen West (illustrator). book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "With illustrations by Tuffen West, printed in colours by Evans", 7 x 4.25", embossed cobalt-blue cloth with gilt-lettering and gilt-pict spine, 188pp with description of plates, cover rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, spine a bit cocked and browned, inner hinges cracked, missing front fly, pp toned, but with all 12 COLOR PLATES OF PLANT AND INSECT PARTS (mostly).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. 12mo. A good copy in red cloth decorated in gilt on the spine and upper board. The boards are now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Ownership inscription. Pp.iv,188. 12 full page colour plates. Black and white illustrations in the text. "---a general demand has arisen for an elementary handbook upon the Microscope and its practical application to the study of nature; and in order to supply that want, this little volume has been published.". Tuffen West (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A delightfully illustrated microscopy guide from the natural-history populariser John George Wood. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Illustrated with twelve plates, including the frontispiece, by British engraver and lithographer Tuffen West and printed in colour by prominent printer Edmund Evans, who popularised the chromoxylography technique. Collated, complete. Undated, dated from copies held by the University of Oxford Libraries and National Library of Scotland. A charming scientific handbook on the various findings discovered through the lens of a microscope. This is one installment in the author's "Common Objects" series, also exploring subjects such as butterflies, ferns, and marine life. Written by significant English writer and clergyman, John George Wood, whose prolific natural history works helped popularise the genre. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Signed by the previous owner to the front paste down. Externally, very smart with sligh bumping and rubbing, causing light marking, and minor loss of cloth to the spine head and tail. Internally, generally firmly bound, notably weaker between the frontispiece and title page, also a little weak to pages 16, 80, 96 and 112. Reasonably bright and clean with occasional spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good. [Tuffen West]; Edmund Evans (illustrator). book.…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. iv (inc Title page) + 132 pages+ 12 single sided plated ( numerous illustrations within text). Condition; mottled hardback binding with leather spine, good, some edge rubbing. Contents Very good, clean & tight, signed inside front 'E Spencer 1866', a few corner tip folds, the binder has trimmed the base of pages a bit too closely. 2nd edition, all plates are black & white by Tuffen West. Title states 'with upwards of four hundred illustration by Tuffen West' . We believe this 1864 copy was the 2nd edition of this popular title. To sum up a remarkably clean copy. Size: 15 x 10cm Approx. Tuffen West (illustrator).…

pp. iv, 188. Frontispiece and 11 plates by TUFFEN WEST, colour printed by EVANS. Original cloth, gilt vignette on front board, all plates with original blank leaf, stitching a bit weak but good copy of a scarce title.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO80169767: 1900. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 186 pages augmentées de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Dos abimé. Ouvrage en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. …