A simple handle microscope botanist, brass & wood, c. 1850
€260
Circa
1850
Country of manufacture
France
Description
A simple botanist’s hand microscope, France, circa 1850.
The instrument is not signed. It is made of turned blackened wood and brass.
It measures 4 inches in length and 1 inch in diameter. Despite a small accident on the handle, the microscope is in good original condition.
Its optics has two biconvex lenses giving high magnification when the plant, or transparent object, is placed against the second, larger lens.
It gives an excellent image.
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Dealer information
Le Zograscope
Established by Alexandre Piffault in 2014 and based in Paris at 5 rue de Condé, 75006, very close to Odéon, Le Zograscope specializes in antique and rare books in Science, Medicine and Technology, and rare antique instruments in the same fields. We have especially a strong interest in early and continental microscopy, early and special mathematical/drawing instruments, medical and surgical instrument, and rare technology.
Personnal website : https://www.lezograscope.com/
