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W. & S. JONES, London
A microscopist's compendium, comprising a lacquered-brass solar microscope, with coarse-screw mirror and lateral adjustment, condenser body-tube and barrel with rack-and-pinion focusing and screw-mounted handle, opaque box and objective slider, a Most Improved Model simple/compound microscope, with body-tube, swivelling arm, square stage with rack-and-pinion focusing, sub-stage bull's-eye condenser and plano/concave mirror, mounted on universal joint to turned pillar support on folding tripod legs, one signed W. & S. Jones, 30 Holborn, London, with revolving objective disc, two lieberkuhn, spring stage, fish plate, cone, slide carriers and other items, the base with drawer containing various ivory and wood sliders, glass phials, cleaner and manuscript list of slides, inscribed A list of the objects to the improved Microscopical Magazine of Instruments, all in a fitted mahogany case with brass carrying handles -- 16in.(41cm.)wide, circa 1800
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A microscopist's compendium, comprising a lacquered-brass solar microscope, with coarse-screw mirror and lateral adjustment, condenser body-tube and barrel with rack-and-pinion focusing and screw-mounted handle, opaque box and objective slider, a Most Improved Model simple/compound microscope, with body-tube, swivelling arm, square stage with rack-and-pinion focusing, sub-stage bull's-eye condenser and plano/concave mirror, mounted on universal joint to turned pillar support on folding tripod legs, one signed W. & S. Jones, 30 Holborn, London, with revolving objective disc, two lieberkuhn, spring stage, fish plate, cone, slide carriers and other items, the base with drawer containing various ivory and wood sliders, glass phials, cleaner and manuscript list of slides, inscribed A list of the objects to the improved Microscopical Magazine of Instruments, all in a fitted mahogany case with brass carrying handles -- 16in.(41cm.)wide, circa 1800
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