Edwin Lankester — Half-Hours with the Microscope; Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Microscope As a Means of Amusement and Instruction

London, Robert Hardwicke, c1861. Cloth. The third edition of an charming handbook teaching the principles of microscopes, written by Britain's first public analyst in health. The third edition of Half-Hours with the Microscope, a popular handbook on microbiology, written by English surgeon and naturalist Edwin Lankester. Believed to be published in 1861, first published in 1859. In the publisher's original cloth with blind stamp detail. Contains a colour frontispiece, and all seven other colour plates by British engraver Tuffen West. Collated complete. Teaching beginners the principles behind microscopes and cell biology, Lankester was the first Medical Officer for Health and made major contributions to controlling London's occurent cholera outbreaks. This third edition contains updated information, particularly concerning compound microscopes, and new in-text woodcut illustrations.  In the publisher's original cloth with blind stamp detail. Externally, the odd small mark to boards, with slight rubbing to joints and edges. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities, with minor loss to spine head and tail. Brown end papers are clean with minor grazing of sticker to bottom edge of rear pastedown. Minor wear to rear end paper hinge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are mostly bright and clean with minor age toning and a small mark to p.9. Very Good . Ill.: Tuffen West. Very Good .