The Microscope And Its Revelations by William B. Carpenter
1875. Fifth edition. 848 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional heavy marks and staining. Small hole in spine.