A description of the most valuable kinds of microscopes now in use [electronic resource] : Viz. The pocket microscope, together with the new invention for fixing it on a pedestal, and giving light to objects by a speculum; the double reflection microscope; the microscope for viewing opake objects; and the solar, or camera obscura microscope. As they are made and sold by John Cuff, against Serjeant's-Inn Gate in Fleet-street. With a particular account of the use and application of the several parts of the apparatus belonging to each kind.
1758
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A description of the most valuable kinds of microscopes now in use [electronic resource] : Viz. The pocket microscope, together with the new invention for fixing it on a pedestal, and giving light to objects by a speculum; the double reflection microscope; the microscope for viewing opake objects; and the solar, or camera obscura microscope. As they are made and sold by John Cuff, against Serjeant's-Inn Gate in Fleet-street. With a particular account of the use and application of the several parts of the apparatus belonging to each kind.
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Cuff, John, ca. 1708-1772.
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London : Printed for John Cuff, in Fleet-street, [1758?]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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8,[2];6;4;12;8p.,plates ; 8⁰.
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The drop-head title of p. [3] of the first section is 'The description of a pocket microscope, ..', and the final unnumbered leaf of the same section is 'The description of a new invention, to fix the pocket microscope, ..'; the second contains 'A description of the solar, or camera obscura microscope, ..', signed and dated at end: John Cuff. Fleet-street, Feb. 17th, 1743; the third 'The description of a microscope for opake objects; ..'; the fourth 'The description of a new-constructed double microscope: ..', signed on p. 4: John Cuff. Fleet-street, Sept. 20th, 1744; all these four sections have separate pagination and register (the third without register), with drop-head titles for the last three; the final section, with separate titlepage and pagination, is 'The description of a double and single microscope. .. London: printed by R. Pardon', 1758.
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Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling.)
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English Short Title Catalog, T224708.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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