Topic
Eighteenth Century
27 Works AvailableCurated Selection
![The Description of a Single Microscope; And of an Apparatus Applicable to the same, in order to make it a Solar Microscope, Which will equally serve for a Camera Obscura, And also for viewing Prints in Perspective, Greatly Improved for those Uses. By Edward Nairne, At the Golden Spectacles, Reflecting Telescope and Hadley’s Quadrant, in Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange, London. [French version:] Description d’un Simple Microscope; & des Machines necessaires a en faire un Microscope Solaire, qui peuvent servir egalement a faire une Chambre Obscure, & a l’Inspection des Estampes en Perspective](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:low,f_avif,c_limit/v1792497981/govi_stock/govi-nairne-the-description-of-a-single-microscope-81953e71-9f88-46e0-8513-653328f9ce0a.png)
Microscopy, optical projection and the London instrument trade
Nairne Edward
The Description of a Single Microscope; And of an Apparatus Applicable to the same, in order to make it a Solar Microscope, Which will equally serve for a Camera Obscura, And also for viewing Prints in Perspective, Greatly Improved for those Uses. By Edward Nairne, At the Golden Spectacles, Reflecting Telescope and Hadley’s Quadrant, in Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange, London. [French version:] Description d’un Simple Microscope; & des Machines necessaires a en faire un Microscope Solaire, qui peuvent servir egalement a faire une Chambre Obscure, & a l’Inspection des Estampes en Perspective
[London, Edward Nairne], n.d. [second half of the eighteenth century]$2,000
First edition of one of the foundational works of European Tibetan studies, and an important landmark in the history of printing with Tibetan movable type. Also the first appearance of the movable Devanagari characters and the first appearance of a head-piece created and signed by Giovanni Battista Bodoni
Giorgi Agostino Antonio
Alphabetum tibetanum missionum apostolicarum commodo editum
Rome, Typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1759$9,000
First edition of one of the earliest substantial works printed entirely in Burmese characters, a pioneering monument of European Burmese typography and a fundamental witness to the beginnings of Christian vernacular literature in Burma
Percoto Giovanni Maria
Compendium doctrinae Christianae idiomate Barmano sive Bomano
Rome, [Typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide], 1776$1,680
First edition of a remarkable Burmese-language catechism, one of the earliest substantial works of Christian religious instruction printed in Burmese characters, produced in Rome by the celebrated polyglot press of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. A highly attractive, uncut and largely unopened copy in contemporary temporary wrappers
Catechismus pro Barmanis eorum lingua primisque nunc litterarum typis excuses. Addita etiam latina interpretatione opera clericorum regularium S. Paulii in regno avae missionariorum adprobante Sac. congreg. de propagande fide
Rome, Typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1785-1786$1,500