A CULPEPER-PATTERN COMPOUND MICROSCOPE, ENGLISH, CIRCA 1730, with brass eyepiece, dust slide, lignum-vitae upper body-tube, velum draw-tube graduated 1-5, shagreen-covered lower body-tube, lignum nose-piece and brass stage on three pilear supports to ebonized mahogany base with accessories drawer containing shaped tweezers, multiple specimen disc and other items--16in. (37.4cm.) high