Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

  

    

Antique books about microscopes and microscopy

Useful antique books in PDF, containing images and descriptions of antique microscopes from different makers, can be found in this page. These references were mostly obtained from publicly available sources, including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) and Internet Archive (https://archive.org). Please click on the covers to access a PDF file of the respective book (note: these may be very big files).

To ease the visual search for specific instruments in these antique books, most figures of microscopes and other instruments related to microscopy engraved in these sources can be found in a single image database (you can access this resource by clicking the ‘Images database’ link on the lateral menu).

 

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A Piney (1931)

 Recent advances in microscopy biological applications

AA Bohm & M Davidoff (1900)

 A textbook of histology including microscopic technic

AA Bohm & M Davidoff (1911)

 A textbook of histology including microscopic technic

A Quekett Club Man (1887)

The students handbook to the microscope

 

 

 

 

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A Zimmermann (1895)

Das mikroskop

Abraham Flatters (1905)

 Methods in microscopical research vegetable histology

Adolphe Hannover (1853)

 On the construction and use of the microscope

AE Wright (1906)

 Principles of microscopy being a handbook to the microscope

 

 

 

 

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Agnes Catlow (1851)

 Drops of water their marvellous and beautiful inhabitants displayed by the microscope

Alexander Peyer (1885)

 An atlas of clinical microscopy

Alfred C Stokes (1894)

 Microscopical praxis or simple methods of ascertaining the properties of various microscopical accessories

Andrew Pritchard (1832)

 The microscopic cabinet of select animated objects with a description of the jewel and doublet microscope

 

 

 

 

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Andrew Pritchard (1838)

 Microscopic illustrations of living objects their natural history

Andrew Pritchard (1838)

New works on microscopic science

Andrew Pritchard (1840)

Microscopic illustrations of living objects

Andrew Pritchard (1845)

Microscopic illustrations of living objects

 

 

 

 

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Andrew Pritchard (1847)

 Microscopic objects animal vegetable and mineral with instructions for preparing and viewing them

Andrew Ross (1877)

 The microscope

Arthur Bolles Lee (1893)

 The microtomists vade mecum - handbook of the methods of microscopic anatomy

Arthur Bolles Lee (1904)

 The microtomists vade mecum - a handbook of the methods of microscopic anatomy (5th Edition)

 

 

 

 

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Arthur Chevalier (1865)

 L’etudiant micrographe traite theorique et pratique du microscope et des preparations

Arthur Chevalier (1865)

Micrographe traite theorique et pratique du microscope

Arthur Cole (1895)

 The methods of microscopical research

Arthur Hardy & Fred Perrin (1932)

 The Principles of Optics

 

 

 

 

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Bernhard Rawitz (1907)

 Lehrbuch der mikroskopischen Technik

C Ealand (1921)

 The romance of the microscope an interesting description of its uses in all branches of science

C Leiss (1914)

 Apparate und Arbeitsmethoden zur mikroskopischen Untersuchung kristallisierter Korper

Carl Friedlaender (1885)

 A manual of microscopical technology for use in the investigations of medicine and pathological anatomy

 

 

 

 

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Carl Friedlaender (1885)

 The use of the microscope in clinical and pathological examinations

Carl Nageli and S Schwendener (1867)

Das mikroskop

Carl Nageli & S Schwendener (1887)

 The microscope in theory and practice

Carl Nageli & Schwendener (1892)

 The microscope in theory and practice (2nd Edition)

 

 

 

 

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Carl Seiler (1881)

 Compendium of microscopical technology a guide to physicians and students in the use of the microscope

Charles Chamberlain (1901)

 Methods in plant histology

Charles Chamberlain (1915)

 Methods in plant histology (3rd edition)

Charles Chevalier (1839)

 Des microscopes et de leur usage

 

 

 

 

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Charles Clark (1900)

Practical methods in microscopy

Charles Hall (1912)

How to use the microscope

 

Charles Otis Whitman (1885)

 Methods of research in microscopical anatomy and embryology

Charles Singer (1914)

 Notes on the early history of microscopy

 

 

 

 

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Charles Winslow (1905)

 Elements of applied microscopy - A textbook for beginners

Charles Woodward (1851)

 A familiar introduction to the study of polarized light

Chas Heath (1922)

The beginners guide to the microscope

 

Chas Matthews & Francis Lott (1889)

 The microscope in the brewery and malt house

 

 

 

 

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Chas Stowell & Louisa Stowell (1882)

 Microscopical diagnosis

Conrad Beck (1921)

The microscope a simple handbook

 

Conrad Beck (1924)

The microscope part II an advanced handbook

 

CR Goring (1830)

 Microscopic illustrations of a few new popular and diverting living objects

 

 

 

 

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CR Goring & A Pritchard (1837)

 Micrographia containing practical essays on reflecting solar oxyhydrogen gas microscopes micrometers

CR Goring & A Pritchard (1837)

 Micrographia or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses

CW Olliver (1951)

 The intelligent use of the microscope

D Gabor (1948)

 The electron microscope its development present performance and future possibilities

 

 

 

 

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David Gruby (1846)

 Description of a new microscope for the use of medical practitioners at the bedside

Dionysius Lardner (1856)

The microscope

EA Sharpey-Schafer (1877)

 A course of practical histology being an introduction to the use of the microscope

Eduard Strasburger (1887)

 Microscopic botany a manual of the microscope in vegetable histology

 

 

 

 

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Eduard Strasburger (1911)

 Handbook of practical botany for the botanical laboratory and private student

Edward Bausch (1891)

 Manipulation of the microscope

Edward Bausch (1902)

 Use and care of the microscope

Edwin Lankester (1874)

 Half hours with the microscope being a popular guide to the use of the microscope

 

 

 

 

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EF Burton (1942)

 Electron microscope

Ellison Hawks (1920)

 The microscope

Ephraim Cutter (1879)

 Primer of the clinical microscope

Ernst Leitz (1910)

The microscope and some hints how to use it

 

 

 

 

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Edmund Spitta (1907)

Microscopy The construction theory and use of the microscope

Edmund Spitta (1920)

Microscopy The construction theory and use of the microscope

Eugene Trutat (1883)

Traite elementaire du microscope

Francis Porcher (1861)

 Illustrations of disease with the microscope

 

 

 

 

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FS Spiers (1920)

 The Microscope Its Design Construction and Application

Frank James (1887)

Elementary microscopical technology

Frank Wethered (1892)

Medical microscopy

FW Mills and T Charters White (1891)

Photography applied to the microscope

 

 

 

 

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G Mann (1902)

 Physiological histology methods and theory

GA Mantell (1846)

 Thoughts on animalcules or a glimpse of the invisible world revealed by the microscope

Gary Calkins (1932)

 The smallest living things life revealed by the microscope

Geo Blackham (1880)

 On angular aperture of objectives for the microscope

 

 

 

 

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George Adams (1787)

Essays on the microscope

George Adams (1798)

 Essays on the microscope containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes

George Chandler Whipple (1899)

 The microscopy of drinking water

George Chandler Whipple (1914)

 The microscopy of drinking water (3rd Edition)

           

 

 

 

 

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George Davis (1882)

Practical microscopy

George Davis (1889)

Practical microscopy

H Hager (1884)

 Le microscope theorie applications

Harvey Gaylord & Ludwig Aschoff (1901)

 The principles of pathological histology

 

 

 

 

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Heinrich Frey (1868)

 Das Mikroskop und die mikroskopische Technik

Heinrich Frey (1880)

The microscope and microscopical technology

Henri Van Heurck (1869)

Le microscope

Henri Van Heurck (1891)

Le microscope

 

 

 

 

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Henri Van Heurck (1893)

Le microscope

Henry Baker (1742)

The microscope made easy

Henry Baker (1753)

 Employment for the microscope

Henry Baker (1754)

 Le microscope a la portee de tout le monde

 

 

 

 

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Henry Baker (1754)

The microscope made easy

Henry Baker (1785)

 Of microscopes and the discoveries made thereby (Vol 1)

Henry Baker (1785)

 Of microscopes and the discoveries made thereby (Vol 2)

Henry King (1956)

The history of the telescope

 

 

 

 

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Henry Piffard (1875)

 The compound microscope as an aid to the study of the skin and skin lesions in situ

Henry Slack (1861)

 Marvels of pond-life or a year’s microscopic recreations among the polyps infusoria rotifers water bears

Henry Slack (1871)

 Marvels of pond-life or a year’s microscopic recreations among the polyps infusoria rotifers water bears and polyzoa

Hermann Hager (1879)

Das mikroskop und seine anwendung

 

 

 

 

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Hermann Lenhartz (1904)

Manual of clinical microscopy and chemistry

Hermann Schacht (1853)

The microscope in its special application to vegetable anatomy and physiology

HG Smith (1914)

 Minerals and the microscope an introduction to the study of petrology

J Edwards Smith (1880)

How to see with the microscope

 

 

 

 

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J Pelletan (1876)

Le microscope son emploi et ses applications

Jabez Hogg (1854)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1856)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1858)

The microscope its history construction and application

 

 

 

 

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Jabez Hogg (1859)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1867)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1869)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1871)

The microscope its history construction and application

 

 

 

 

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Jabez Hogg (1883)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1886)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1890)

The microscope its history construction and application

Jabez Hogg (1898)

The microscope its history construction and application

 

 

 

 

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James Crowther (1891)

 The microscope and its lessons

JE Smith (1880)

 How to see with the microscope

JH Wythe (1877)

The microscopist

JH Wythe (1883)

The microscopist

 

 

 

 

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JH Wythes (1880)

The microscopist

JG Richardson (1871)

 A handbook of medical microscopy

JG Wood (1861)

 Common objects of the microscope

JG Wood (1900)

 Common objects of the microscope

 

 

 

 

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JH Bennett (1841)

 On the employment of the microscope in medical studies

JJ Ward (1908)

 Minute marvels of nature being some revelations of the microscope exhibited by photomicrographs taken

John Belling (1930)

 The use of the microscope a handbook for routine and research work

John Brocklesby (1971)

 The amateur microscopist or Views of the microscopic world

 

 

 

 

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John Ferguson (1858)

 The microscope its revelations and application in science and art

John Martin (1878)

 A manual of microscopic mounting

John King (1859)

The microscopists companion

John Phin (1877)

Practical hints on the selection and use of the microscope

 

 

 

 

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John Phin (1881)

Practical hints on the selection and use of the microscope

John Phin (1882)

How to use the microscope

John Phin (1890)

How to use the microscope

John Quekett (1848)

Practical treatise on the use of the microscope

 

 

 

 

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John Quekett (1852)

Practical treatise on the use of the microscope

John Quekett (1852)

 Lectures on histology (Vol 1)

John Quekett (1852)

 Lectures on histology (Vol 2)

Joseph Wythes (1852)

The microscopist

 

 

 

 

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Joseph Wythes (1853)

The microscopist

JT Needham (1745)

 New microscopical discoveries

Julius Behrens (1885)

The microscope in botany

Julius Vogel (1884)

 Das Mikroskop

 

 

 

 

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Julius Wiesner (1872)

 Mikroskopische Untersuchungen

Julius Wilhelm Behrens (1885)

 A guide for the microscopical investigation of vegetable substances

JW Griffith (1864)

 An elementary textbook of the microscope

JW Griffith & A Henfrey (1874)

 The micrographic dictionary examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects (Vol 2)

 

 

 

 

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JW Griffith & A Henfrey (1974)

 The micrographic dictionary examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects (Vol 1)

L L Clarke (1863)

 Objects for the microscope being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition

L Mandl (1839)

 Traite pratique du microscope et de son emploi dans letude des corps organises

L Planchon and L Hugounenq (1884)

Le microscope Theorie Applications

 

 

 

 

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L Woodruff (1919)

 Hookes Micrographia

Leopold Dippel (1867)

Das Mikroskop und seine Anwendung

Lionel Beale (1854)

The microscope and its application to clinical practice

Lionel Beale (1857)

 The use of the microscope in clinical medicine. Illustrated

 

 

 

 

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Lionel Beale (1858)

The microscope and its application to practical medicine

Lionel Beale (1861)

How to work with the microscope

Lionel Beale (1867)

The microscope and its application to practical medicine

Lionel Beale (1878)

The microscope in medicine

 

 

 

 

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Louis Joblot (1718)

Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaus microscopes

Louis Joblot (1754)

 Observations d’histoire naturelle faites avec le microscope

Ludwig Thanhoffer (1880)

Das mikroskop und seine anwendung

MI Cross and Martin Cole (1912)

Modern microscopy

 

 

 

 

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Martin Ledermuller (1764)

 Amusement microscopique tant pour l esprit que pour les yeux (Vol 1)

Martin Ledermuller (1764)

 Amusement microscopique tant pour l esprit que pour les yeux (Vol 2)

Martin Ledermuller (1764)

 Amusement microscopique tant pour l esprit que pour les yeux (Vol 3)

Mason Thomas & William Duddley (1894)

 A laboratory manual of plant histology

 

 

 

 

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MC Cooke (1869)

 One thousand objects for the microscope

Michael Guyer (1906)

Animal micrology

Michael Guyer (1917)

Animal micrology

NA Cobb (1905)

 Methods of using the microscope camera lucida and solar projector for purposes of examination and the production of illustrations

 

 

 

 

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P Francotte (1886)

Manuel de technique microscopique

P Harting (1859)

Das mikroskop Theorie, gebrauch geschichte und gegenwartiger zustand desselben

Paul Ehrlich et al. (1910)

 Enzyklopadie der mikroskopischen Technik (Vol 1)

Paul Ehrlich et al. (1910)

 Enzyklopadie der mikroskopischen Technik (Vol 2)

 

 

 

 

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Paul Hasluck (1903)

 Microscopes and accessories how to make and use them

Philip Henry Gosse (1860)

 Evenings at the microscope or researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life

Philip Henry Gosse (1877)

 Evenings at the microscope or researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life

Philipp Stohr (1906)

 Stohrs histology

 

 

 

 

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Philipp Stohr (1913)

 A textbook of histology arranged upon an embryological basis

Richard Beck (1865)

A treatise on the construction proper use and capabilities of Smith Beck and Beck achromatic microscopes

R Greeff (1913)

 Guide to the microscopic examination of the eye

Reginald Clay (1911)

 Treatise on Practical Light

 

 

 

 

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Richard Kerr (1909)

 Nature through microscope and camera

Robert Hooke (1665)

 Extracts from micrographia or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses

Robert Hooke (1667)

 Micrographia or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses

Robert Hooke (1745)

 Micrographia restaurata or the copper plates of Dr Hooke’s wonderful discoveries by the microscope

 

 

 

 

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Robert Lyons (1851)

 An apology for the microscope

Robert Neill (1920s)

 Microscopy in the service of man

Ruth Howland & Morris Belkin (1931)

 Manual of micrurgy

S Fleet Speir (1871)

 The use of the microscope in the differential diagnosis of morbid growths

 

 

 

 

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Samuel Wells et al. (1886)

 Through a microscope

Simon Henry Gage (1896)

The microscope and microscopical methods

Simon Henry Gage (1899)

The microscope

Simon Henry Gage (1901)

The microscope

 

 

 

 

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