The Microscope: Its Construction and Management. Including Technique, Photo-micrography, and the Past and Future of the Microscope. English edition re-edited and augmented by the author from the fourth French edition, and translated by W. E. Baxter . . .

London:: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1893., 1893. Tall 8vo. xv, [1], 382 pp. 3 plates (frontispiece with a tissue guard), 229 figures, index; heavily foxed. Original full dark green gilt-stamped cloth with a large microscope in gilt on the upper cover, top edge gilt; front and rear inner joints reinforced. Signed by George Ellery Hale, July 1927; embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. Very good+. SIGNED BY GEORGE ELLERY HALE. First English edition translated by Wynne Edwin Baxter (1844-1920), augmented, from the fourth edition. The book was originally issued in French in 1869. / Henri Ferdinand van Heurck was a Belgian diatom specialist and microscopist. Born in an industrialist family, he taught himself microscopy and botany and wrote several pioneering works on diatoms, their study under the microscope and their preservation. He pioneered the use of electric lighting and its use in microphotography. REFERENCE: Bracegirdle, Brain. A History of microtechnique, p. 52. (Inventory #: S14339)