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A good 19th-Century lacquered-brass Jones' Most Improved compound monocular microscope,
signed on the foot W. & S. JONES, 30 Holborn London, the body-tube with threaded nosepiece to the short cross-bar support, atop a square-section pillar along which the stage runs via rack and pinion, with substage magnifier and plano-concave mirror on sleeves, the pillar tilting via a compass joint from a tapering column with three folding splayed feet, with one eyepiece, four lieberkuhn objectives, one simple objective with threaded brass cap and a six-bead objective disc, cone, live-box, stage-mounted bull's-eye, frog-plate, tweezers, Bonani stage, eared stage attachment, stage forceps, three glass tubes, turned ivory canister with split rings and talcs, one flat and two concave glass discs, three long fruitwood sliders, a brass slider with sleeve and six ivory sliders, each with four cells, also with a twenty-four page manuscript notebook entitled A Description of Martins new universal compound microscope with a double-page of the illustrated components of the microscope and accessories hand-drawn in ink, and a manuscript list of objects in the sliders, in a fitted mahogany carrying case with two brass carrying handles and key -- 31.2cm. (11¼in.) wide
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signed on the foot W. & S. JONES, 30 Holborn London, the body-tube with threaded nosepiece to the short cross-bar support, atop a square-section pillar along which the stage runs via rack and pinion, with substage magnifier and plano-concave mirror on sleeves, the pillar tilting via a compass joint from a tapering column with three folding splayed feet, with one eyepiece, four lieberkuhn objectives, one simple objective with threaded brass cap and a six-bead objective disc, cone, live-box, stage-mounted bull's-eye, frog-plate, tweezers, Bonani stage, eared stage attachment, stage forceps, three glass tubes, turned ivory canister with split rings and talcs, one flat and two concave glass discs, three long fruitwood sliders, a brass slider with sleeve and six ivory sliders, each with four cells, also with a twenty-four page manuscript notebook entitled A Description of Martins new universal compound microscope with a double-page of the illustrated components of the microscope and accessories hand-drawn in ink, and a manuscript list of objects in the sliders, in a fitted mahogany carrying case with two brass carrying handles and key -- 31.2cm. (11¼in.) wide
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