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Essays on the microscope : containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes : a general history of insects : illustrated with thirty-two folio plates (2nd ed. / with considerable additions and improvements by Frederick Kanmacher) (1798)

Adams, George, 1750-1795 · London : Printed by Dillon and Keating for the editor · leaf 700

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