Microscope by Gage Simon, First Edition (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 77pp. Wrappers. Yapped edges a it worn, else very good. Quotation from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes on Use of Fluorite.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. 29pp. very good in wraps. Creased at the corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First ed. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. One deep scuff on front board, some bumping/shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, NO foxing or markings. Binding sturdy. Protected in removable archival plastic sleeve.

First edition. Hardcover book rebound in the cloth-gilt. 24 cm. 731 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. In very good condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Front hinge cracked but holding firmly to the book block. Light spotting to the front/back matter and a few interior pages. book block edges. Light edge wear/bumping to the cloth covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Comstock Publishing Company, Ithaca, New York. 1914. Ix, 731 pgs. Illustrated with 400 text-figures and includes 3 laid in photos of optic projectors. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-library item with library number present to the spine, stamps present to the front pastedown. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bookplate present to the front pastedown, library stamps present to the same. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Simon Henry Gage (May 20, 1851 October 20, 1944) was a professor of anatomy, Histology, and Embryology at Cornell University and an important figure in the history of American microscopy. His book, The Microscope, appeared in seventeen editions. In 1931, a volume of the American Journal of Anatomy was dedicated to Gage on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 731 pages.

Hardcover. ix, 731p., illustrated with plentiful diagrams and extraordinately clear photo-engravings. A re-bound item without any sort of damage at all to the original textblock (presswork on nice clay-coated paperstock), half-calf brown leather backstrip (gilt-titled) and corners; the calf has begun to dry and erode at both rims and margins, a nice production employing ill-tanned leather. Still pleasant to hold, and completely firm and square. Largely sound, entirely clean and unmarked throughout (the replacement endpapers are amazingly well-designed and in excellent shape).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown cloth bound book, modestly edgeworn. Binding is sloppy. Former owner's name on front end paper and title page. A few minor marks to otherwise clean pages. Many plates and illustrations of early projectors and their components.