The Microscope and Its Revelations by Carpenter W B Dallinger W H (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Volume I only. 8th edition. 8vo. 530 pages. Dark green cloth boards with titles on spine. Monochrome photomicrographs as frontispiece, with tissue guard. Numerous monochrome illustrations, mainly in the text, some full-page. Boards rubbed; corners bumped; ends of spine just starting to fray; spine discoloured. Endpapers toned; bookseller's pencil annotations on front endpaper; otherwise pages clean. Hinges slightly tender but binding otherwise remaining firm.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Clean text; boards loose; gilt on spine; age toned; light foxing; no DOP found Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Eighth Edition. Lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly chipped. Hinges have been reinforced with glue. Some foxing, maionly to closed edges and endpapers, some to plates also, otherwise content clean and tidy, slightly shaken due to thickness and number of pages, but remains fairly sturdy. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Good. xiv, 530, 16-ads; [iv], xv-xx, [1], 530-1136, 16-ads, frontis, 22 plates (8 col), 817 text figs. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo, orig. green cloth, rubbed, minor wear to extremities, top edge gilt. Endpapers browned; some light foxing throughout. Good. From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name and ownership stamp to endpapers. Also with ownership stamp of W. Harold Cotton, 'aquatic expert' (dated 1936). Eighth edition, enlarged and revised by Rev. W.H. Dallinger. Vol. I: the Microscope and its Accessories; Vol. II: the Microscope and its Revelations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece, xviii, 1099 pp, publisher's ads; 20 plates, 756 text figures. Original blue cloth. Copy of Frederick T. Drake, with his signature dated Jan. 1, 1892. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. Seventh Edition, American issue (also published in 1891 in London by J. & A. Churchill). This seventh edition by Dallinger was a massive revision of Carpenter's sixth edition (1881). Quoting from Dallinger's Preface to this seventh edition: "The Microscope in its very highest form has become--so far at least as objectives of the most perfect construction and greatest useful magnifying power are concerned--so common that a much more accurate account of the theoretical basis of the instrument itself and of the optical apparatus employed with it to obtain the best results with 'high powers' is a want very widely felt. The advances in the mathematical optics involved in the construction of the most perfect form of the present Microscope have been very rapid during the last twenty years; and the progress in the principles of practical construction and the application of theory have, even since the last edition of this book was published, been so marked as to produce a revolution in the instrument itself and in its application. The new dispensation was dimly indicated in the last edition; but it has effected so radical a change in all that appertains to Microscopy that a thorough revision of the treatment of this treatise was required. The great principles involved in the use of the new objectives and the interpretation of the images presented by their means, are distinct and unique; and unless these be clearly understood the intelligent use of the finest optical appliances now produced by mathematical and practical optics cannot be brought about.".

Two volumes (complete). xiv, 1136, 15 p., 900 woodcut figures, 22 (several coloured) plates, frontispiece, green publisher?s cloth. Very good copy of the last edition of this classic work that was often published in one volume (but those thick heavy volumes do not age well). Here we present a very nice two volume set.