The History of the Microscope: Compiled from Original Instruments and Documents, Up to the Introduction of the Achromatic Microscope

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small quarto xiv + 266pp., b/w plates, text ills., indexes, 'First published in 1932; the book was compiled almost entirely from first hand studies of original instruments and documents. A history of the the development of the microscope up to the introduction of the reflecting microscope'.