Catalogue of Microscopic Objects and Photo-Micrographic & Other Lantern Slides by W. Watson & Sons - 1914-15

Sydney, W. Watson & Sons, 1946.. x+82pp. Sm. 4to. Original cloth, a little sunned. B&w illustrations, colour frontispiece, spotting to preliminary and rear blank leaves. Light foxing to upper and lower edges, library stamp embossed on ffe, otherwise a very good copy.. First edition.

London,: W. Watson & Sons,, (1924).. 36 pp. 12mo (12,5 x 18 cm.). Original [printed wrappers. With numerous illustrations. ¶ The house of Watson was renowned for their quality optical and scientific instruments. One of the most famous of them is the Henri Van Heurck microscope (build ca. 1910).

1930's-1950s'. , . . PB. Vg.. Part 1, Microscopes and Accessories (38th Edition); Part 2, Microscopes and Accessories (38th Edition); Part 3, Objects for the Microscope (36th Edition), all ca. 1930's. Together with a promotional binder of Watson advertising brochures - includes information on the Bactil 60 Microscope; Holophot Photomicrograhic Equipment; Stereoscopic Binocular Microscopes; Accessories for Watson Microscopes; etc, ca. 1950.W. Watson and Sons Ltd. were microscope and optical instrument makers, based in London, originally founded by William Watson in 1837..

W. Watson & Sons., London., 1946 176 page fully illustrated catalogue complete in two parts, with photo plates and highly detailed offset lithographs to each page of microscopes and apparatus. With interior view of the works. There is an error of page numbering from page 116 the pages start at page 201 to 260. NOTHING missing. Printers error. Green card covers a little handled, the first part faded and spotted on the cover and title page, though contents on glossy finish art paper have some minor signs of damp at some page top edges. Slim heavy quarto. 1946 (date taken from price list). *This was the company's 38th catalogue and one of the largest. Additionally inserted are the printed loose price lists for both parts, and several pages of hand written notes on setting up microscopes, on the Patna Microscope, two original invoices from W.Watson dated 1950, and two letters to Ilford Ltd. from Clare College Cambridge. All these inserts are associated with I. R. H. Allan, senior scientific… Read More