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ADAMS, GEORGE. c.1709-1773.
Micrographia Illustrata, or the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain'd: Together with an Account of a New Invented Universal, Single or Double, Microscope.... London: Printed for and Sold by the Author, and by Samuel Birt, 1747.

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ADAMS, GEORGE. c.1709-1773.

Micrographia Illustrata, or the Knowledge of the Microscope Explain'd: Together with an Account of a New Invented Universal, Single or Double, Microscope.... London: Printed for and Sold by the Author, and by Samuel Birt, 1747.
4to (223 x 180 mm). 65 folding engraved plates. Modern half calf and marbled paper; spine faded, margins toned, small hole to plate 18 with some loss to image, top margin of plate 34 soiled.

SECOND EDITION, a reissue of the first of 1746, with 65 plates and the 20-page catalogue of Adams' instruments at the end. Probably intended as a manual to accompany the sale of Adams' own microscopes from his shop at "Tycho Brahe's Head in Fleet Street," the work contains six plates illustrating Adams' instruments followed by 59 plates depicting all manner of objects to be viewed beneath the lens, from spermatozoa to lice and snow. ESTC T53415; Poggendorff I, p 10.

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