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• OF MICROSCOPES, AND THE DISCOVERIES MADE THEREBY : ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY COPPER-PLATES. VOL. I.
  by: Baker, Henry, 1698-1774
  Published: (1785)
• A PICTURESQUE TOUR through HOLLAND, BRABANT, and part of FRANCE; Made in the Autumn of 1789 : Illustrated with Copper Plates in Aqua Tinta From Drawings made on the Spot. VOL. II
  by: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
  Published: (1790)
• THE NEW ROYAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, COMPLETE MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN : IN WHICH ALL THE RESPECTIVE SCIENCES, ARE ARRANGED INTO COMPLETE SYSTEMS, AND THE ARTS DIGESTED INTO DISTINCT TREATISES. ALSO THE DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, Alphabetically arranged and fully explained, according to the BEST AUTHORITIES. Containing a Digest and Display of the Whole Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts. Comprising a General REPOSITORY of ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME: Containing all the New IMPROVEMENTS and latest DISCOVERIES made in the ARTS and SCIENCES, particularly Acoustic ... Vermeology, &c. The Superfluities which abound in other Dictionaries are expunged, for the Purpose of incorporating Complete Systems, and Distinct Treatises. By means of this addition and deviation from the Old Plan it comprizes A GENERAL CIRCLE OF SCIENCE, AND FORMS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, That was ever published in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Whole entirely freed from the Errors, Obscurities, and Superfluities of other DICTIONARIES. Illustrated with upwards of 150 Large Superb COPPER PLATES, accurately Descriptive of the Subjects to which they refer. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II
  by: Hall, William Henry, -1804
  Published: (1789)
• Micrographia illustrata, OR, The Knowledge of the MICROSCOPE Explain'd: Together with an ACCOUNT of A New Invented UNIVERSAL, Single or Double, MICROSCOPE, Either of which is capable of being applied to an Improv'd SOLAR APPARATUS : This TREATISE contains a Description of the Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers of Microscopes in general; together with full Directions how to prepare, apply, and examine, as well as preserve, all Sorts of minute Objects: Also an Account of The principal MICROSCOPICAL DISCOVERIES, that have hitherto been mentioned by the most celebrated AUTHORS, together with a great Variety of new Experiments and Observations. The WHOLE being, as it were, A NATURAL HISTORY of a Multitude of Aerial, Terrestrial, and Aquatick Animals, Seeds, Plants, &c. To which is added, A TRANSLATION of Mr. JOBLOTT's Observations on the Animalcula, that are found in many different Sorts of Infusions; AND A very particular Account of that surprising Phaenomenon, The Fresh Water Polype, translated from the French Treatise of Mr. Trembley. This WORK is compiled for the Assistance of those, who are desirous of surveying the extensive Beauties of the minute Creation; And is illustrated with 65 copper-plates, curiously engrav'd, which contain above 560 Pictures of MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS
  by: Adams, George, 1709-1772
  Published: (1747)
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  Published: (1788)