ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Essays on the Microscope.

London: Printed for the author, by Robert Hindmarsh, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, No. 32, Clerkenwell-Close; and sold by the author, at his Shop, Tycho Brahe's Head, No. 60, Fleet-Street, M. DCC. LXXXVII. [1787].

Essays on the microscope: containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes: a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits, and oeconomy: an account of the various species and singular properties of the hydrae and vorticellae: a description of Three Hundred and Seventy-Nine Animalcula: with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts when under the microscope / by George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, and optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
xxiii, 724 pages, plates and illustrations. Plate XX hand coloured.

Plates with separate t.p., “Plates for the Essays on the microscope / by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, and Optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, “ follows p. 724 of text.

With two pages of handwritten notes tipped in after p. 160. “To use with the"

Bound in ¾ leather, marbled boards, gilt borders, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, raised bands, decorative gilt spine panels, red lather spine label with girl title.


H: 11 W: 8 1/2 in. Good. Soiled, frontis and t.p. browned, some offsetting of frontis., some slight foxing throughout, front hinges creaked at dedication. Edges and corners rubbed, corners bumped.