History Microscope Compiled Original Instruments by Clay Reginald Court Thomas (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated in black & white. xiv, 266 pages. 4to. Hardcover, bound in dark red cloth. Very Goood.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint of book first published in 1932. Large 8vo. 266 pages. Pictorial dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Top edge of text block stained blue. Blue endpapers. Numerous monochrome illustrations, mainly in the text, a few full-page. Dust jacket lightly worn; small closed tear at tail of spine. Boards with no significant signs of wear. Top edge of text block with scattered spots. Pages clean. Binding firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 266pp. 163 b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A fine, fresh, as new red HB w/ publisher's colophon embossed in the front cover and an original prospectus for the book loosely laid in.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine. Some bubbling and soiling of cloth and adhesive tape stain on base of spine. Contents tight with usual library markings. Pockets have been removed from e/p's. 266pp with 164 illustrations. Sound ex-library copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. xiv, 266 pages. 164 illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in the publisher's red fabrikoid binding.

Hardcover. Small Quarto, 266 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in Dark red cloth with gilt lettering. Boards have bending and fraying to spine edges, rubbing to corners, and mild edge and shelf wear. Binding shaken. Textblock has light age toning, bookplate of Silvio Bedini on front pastedown, bookstore sticker on front pastedown, and light writing in pencil on front endpaper. Shelved in Room G. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378738. Special Collections.

Hardcover. First Edition. From the library of Professor Jerry Stannard. 266pp, 163 figures. Good condition with small discolorations on covers, boards very slightly bowed, inked name/date, with clean text.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). 164 illustrations. Small 4to, blue cloth, d.w., a bit scratched. London: Holland Press, (1975). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Garrison Morton 371.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition of Garrison-Morton 271. xiv, 1 leaf, 266 pp; 164 illus. Original cloth. Near Fine.

4to. xiv, 266 pp. Photos of microscopes, illus., list of instrument makers, index. Boards, dust-jacket. FINE.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very pleasing first edition of this history of the microscope, with the scarce original glassine wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with one hundred and sixty-four images. A detailed history, compiled from original instruments and documents, of the microscope, offering detailed insight into the development of this important laboratory instrument. With chapters on the history of magnifiers, the invention of the microscope, early compound microscopes, improvements, reflections, and more. Includes references to important figures in this process from Robert Hooke to Benjamin Martins and George Adams. Written by Reginald S. Clay and Thomas H. Court, British scientific historians best known for this work and fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original glassine wrapper is worn with chipping and tearing to the extremities resulting in light loss. A tear to the rear panel resulting in the panel and rear fly leaf to detach from the remainder of the wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Light spotting to the endpapers. Fine. book.

The Holland Press, London 1975. xiv, 266 pp. Publisher's cloth. Fine condition.

London, Charles Griffin, 1932. 4to. Orig. full fabrikoid. XIV,266 pp., 164 textillustrations. First edition.