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Half-Hours with The Microscope: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Microscope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
by Lankester, Edwin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Sheffield, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London.: Robert Hardwicke. No date, circa 1870s. xx, 130pp, 9 plates. Illustrated from Nature by Tuffen West. With a chapter on the Polariscope by F. Kitton. Original brown cloth with gilt titles. Slight wear to the spine ends. Internally, front inner joint is cracked but firm, armorial bookplate of Philip Sleeman.. New Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- N. G. Lawrie Books.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56581
- Title
- Half-Hours with The Microscope: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Microscope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
- Author
- Lankester, Edwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- New Edition.
- Publisher
- Robert Hardwicke.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Microscopes Microscopy.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Medicine;
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- Gilt
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- New
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- 12mo
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