Penesco (Anne)Livre Rare Book
Journal de Micrographie . vols. 1 - 9 4 & 8 absent
1877réf. 19034Paris: Bureaux du Journal 1877 - 1885. First Edition. Contemporary half leather and marbled paper. Very good; some modest chafing; occasional marginal notes. 8vo I - 4 368 pp. 3 plates; II - 3 - 524 12 pp.5 plates; III - 4 3 - 548 2 pp. 11 plates; V - 3 - 516 pp. 22 plates; VI - 4 3 - 646 pp. 17 plates including a mounted full-page albumen print of Pelletan's 'Continental' microscope - a 'class A' instrument of his own design selling for 600 Francs; VII - 4 3 - 666 pp. 6 plates; IX - 4. 1 - 534 pp. 5 plates plate 1 not bound in - as with other located copies. The asterisk indicating confused numbering of the plates but all are present. A run of an important journal in its formative years. The contents pages read like a who's who of nineteenth century microscopists writing on all matter of observations equipment lenses improvements and observations e.g. vol. 9 contains a number of articles and illustrations on penicillin ferments. The text is illustrated throughout. Bureaux du Journal hardcover books
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