A World of Wonders Revealed

by the Microscope. A Book for Young Students by Mary Ward, The Hon. Mrs. W.

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1858. First edition, first printing. iv , 56, 8 pp. Bound in publisher's green ribbed cloth elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. With 14 colored plates. Very Good with wear, fading and wrinkling to cloth, binding shaken and front hinge weak, marking to front free endpaper, contents soiled. Mary King Ward was an Irish naturalist, microscopist, astronomer and scientific

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