A Windfall for The Microscope. An original uncommon article from the Intellectual Observer, 1864 by Hon. Mrs. Ward - 1864

Intellectual Observer, London, 1862. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good. 5 pages, 8 figures. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: Octavo (24 x 16 cms). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Intellectual Observer; Inventory No: 227164..

Groombrige & Sons, 1870. Book. Fair. Hard Cover Decorative Cloth. 2 colour plates missing, 6 remain. Free endpapers missing and remainder water stained. Ink stain to edges of pages. Corners bumped. Head & Foot of spine rubbed. Black & White illustrations. 154 pages..

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1876 Descriptions of various objects of especial interest and beauty adapted for microscopic observation with directions for the arrangement of a microscope, and the collection and mounting of objects. 154pp gilt all edges, with eight colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Publishers original green blind stamped and gilt cloth. Rebacked with original relaid, new end papers. Spine dull, corners lightly rubbed.

London, Groombridge, 1869. 8vo. 3rd ed. 120mm x 180mm. 8 colour-printed plates, other text illustrations, original gilt and blackstamped cloth, all edges gilt. Corners rubbed, spine ends frayed and repaired, new end papers, owner's details on back of frontis, small section cut out of top3/4 inch of titlepage, sporadic foxing, cloth dampmarked from fore edge and slightly soiled.. Hardcover .

London 1899 3rd Groombridge. Hardcover. 12mo., 150pp., frontis, color plates, bright blue gilt decorated cloth. All edges gilt. One old school stamp on title page. Good,later endpapers, faint residue of spine label, two spots of ink stain on front. Good plus. .

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869. 3rd edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback in decorated cloth vi + 152pp., colour frontis., colour plates, text ills., index, Very nice bright copy with superb colour lithos

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. London, Paul Jerrard & Son. [1859]. pp.[ii], 20, 48 with additional hand coloured pictorial title, hand coloured frontis., and decorative wreath enclosing the Dedication. Further hand coloured wood-engraved initials and illus. to text. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. A thought provoking poem about a beetle neatly written in pencil to ffep. Some minor spotting / marks, o/w. contents fine. Original richly gilt decorated blue cloth, expertly rebacked preserving part of the original spine and end-papers. Scarce. Jerrard publications are renowned for their delightful, detailed, hand colouring and this book is testament to that.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary full calf decorated in gilt, all edges marbled. Very Good, binding moderately scuffed and worn at the extremities. Pages foxed, tanned and with age-related stains. Former owner inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Mary Ward was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. As the event occurred in 1869, she is the first person known to have been killed by an automobile.