Quekett, J. - A practical treatise on the use of the microscope. Including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures. Illustrated with nine plates and two hundred and forty-one wood engravings.

London, H. Bailliere, 1848. 8vo (22.0 x 14.2 cm) xxi, 464 pp., Frontispiece and eight further engraved plates, 241 woodcuts in the text (one hand-coloured). Original brown, blind-stamped cloth. Gilt title on the spine. = Rare first edition published in the Library of illustrated standard scientific works series. With four illustrated leaves of Bailliere scientific publications. Inscribed and dated by two former private owners on the front pastedown and front free endpaper. Rebacked, with much of the original spine cover. Most plates foxed in the margins. Otherwise very good.

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