Author: HOOKE Robert
Title: Micrographia. Introduced by Ruth Scurr and with a Brief Life by John Aubrey. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Description: Folio Society,, 2017. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 38 plates (5 folding); patterned black cloth blocked in silver, black leather back lettered in silver, silver top, black endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's cloth slip-case blocked in silver. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 692). The illustrations, presented at original size, are reproduced from copies of the first and second editions held at the Bodleian Library and the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.

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