A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,

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A 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope,
signed on the body-tube T. Cooke, York, with rack and pinion coarse focusing, fine adjustment, with curved body-limb, mechanical stage, sub-stage condenser and plano-concave mirror, the limb raised on a tapering pillar support and circular plinth base, with two objectives, two eyepieces, bull's-eye condenser, forceps and other items, in supplementary case, and contained in a fitted mahogany carrying case with brass handle -- 17¼in. (43.8cm.) high

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