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Goring, C.R. (1792-1840) and Andrew Pritchard (1804-1882) Micrographia: Containing Practical Essays on Reflecting, Solar, Oxy-Hydrogen Gas Microscopes; Micrometers; Eye-Pieces.
London: Whitaker & Co., 1837.
First edition, illustrated with large folding frontispiece engraved by John Cleghorn after Goring, text illustrations, and two additional full-page plates bound after the text (plates numbered I-III beginning with frontispiece), with a single leaf of printer's ads bound after the text, presentation inscription to the American Microscopical Society of the City of New York by J. Frey, in boards, with publisher's original spine label, some foxing, binding worn, chipping to spine along joints, corners bumped, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
