[Magic Lantern] City of London Grand Hydro-Oxygen Microscopic Exhibition, No. 4, Charlotte Row,Opposite the Private Entrance to the Mansion House.
J. Brimmer, Printer, 59a Greek Street, Soho [n.d., c.1830].
Broadside, letterpress and wood-engraving. Sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼), printed on both sides. Slight staining, old ink mss. on reverse "commencing every hour".
An advert for a show with a 'Oxyhydrogen Microscope', a magic lantern capable of projecting images from microscope slides using limelight, illustrated with an image of a cheese mite. Altrick, shows of London, pg. 370-1, "never indeed until the advert of the monster mile panorama at the end of the next decade was the in-fighting livelier than it was among rival microscopes".
[Ref: 60770] £490.00
Broadside, letterpress and wood-engraving. Sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼), printed on both sides. Slight staining, old ink mss. on reverse "commencing every hour".
An advert for a show with a 'Oxyhydrogen Microscope', a magic lantern capable of projecting images from microscope slides using limelight, illustrated with an image of a cheese mite. Altrick, shows of London, pg. 370-1, "never indeed until the advert of the monster mile panorama at the end of the next decade was the in-fighting livelier than it was among rival microscopes".
[Ref: 60770] £490.00