Photo-micrography..
Bound in original blue cloth, gilt with blind stamped borders on boards. Slight wear to extremities and occasional foxing, but otherwise a very good clean copy.
£60.00
Publisher
The Scientific Press, Limited, 28 and 29 Southampton Street, Strand.,
Place
London
Date
1899
Synopsis
With forty-one half-tone reproductions from original negatives and sixty-three text illustrations.
Item Description
4to. 8.75 x 10.75 inches. [2] pp. advertisements + xi + [i] + 163 + [1] pp. + [3] pp. advertisements. 9 appendices at end.
Illustrations
Illustrated by frontispiece and five other half tone plates at end, with letterpress caption pages facing, and by 63 text figures of engravings and drawings.
Notes
A practical guide to the theory and practice of photomicrography which includes text engravings and advertisements for well known brands of microscopes, including those of Baker, Beck, Powell and Lealand, Ross, Swift, W. Watson and Carl Zeiss. Edmund Johnson Spitta (1853-1921) was a well known microscopist who was also a demonstrator of anatomy at St. George's Hospital Medical School and the joint author of An Atlas of Bacteriology.
[Stock No. 24134]
Subjects
19th Century • Illustrated • Medicine • Microscopes • Natural History • Natural History/Science • Photographs • Science