Sold for:
$1,800
$1,800
Adams, George (1709-1772) Micrographia Illustrata . London: for the Author, 1771. Large octavo, fourth edition, seventy-four plates, many folding, one bound as the frontispiece, untrimmed throughout, including the continuously signed but separately paged Catalog of the Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instruments , made for George Adams and for sale at the sign of Tycho Brahe's head, at number 60 Fleet Street, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, joints split. Plate 56 numbered 57, plate 69 misbound at page 212, two each of the plates numbered 60, 61, and 64.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18