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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Mary Ward (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of pioneering Victorian scientist Mary Ward's introduction to microscopy. Illustrated with hand coloured plates. The scarce first edition of this work. This informative volume evolved from the author's first work, 'Sketches with the Microscope' (1857), of which only two-hundred and fifty copies were produced.Mary Ward was an important scientist for her pioneering work in microscopy and entomology, contributing significantly to the understanding of microscopic organisms and insects in the 19th century. She is the earliest known victim of a car accident, when she was mown down by an experimental steam car built by her cousins.Illustrated with sixteen hand coloured plates after sketches from the author. Collated, complete.In the very scarce publisher's original cloth binding, with image of a microscope in gilt to the centre of the front board.With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants to rear pastedown. Bookplate of scientist George Day to the front pastedown.A smart example of this very scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip and fore edge of front board lightly age toned. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout, most notably between pages 80 and 81. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with instances of light spotting and handling marks throughout. Further spotting to plate perimeters. Plate 10 detached and loosely inserted. Very Good. book.

First edition of this celebrated introduction to microscopy by one of the foremost popularizers of Victorian science. A substantially expanded version of Ward's 1858 work, A World of Wonders Revealed by the Microscope, it is copiously illustrated with colour plates and engravings based on her own meticulous artwork. Gifted a microscope by her father when she was 18, Ward (1827-1869) "took a keen interest in natural history and astronomy from childhood. Her enthusiasm led to serious study and she produced microscope slides and skilled and accurate illustrations, both for her own work and for others. Ward put on exhibitions for her family and friends and hand-printed her own booklets" (Matthews). Microscope Teachings evolved from her first book, Sketches with the Microscope (1857), which was published locally in 250 copies in her native Ireland. After its favourable reception, the London publishers Groombridge and Sons republished it as A World of Wonders Revealed by the Microscope (1858). From here, the text of Ward's bestseller split in two and significantly increased in length to become the uniformly bound pairing of Telescope Teachings (1859) and this title. Ward "takes her place among the popularizers of science who, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, did much to encourage a knowledge of, and interest in, the natural world among the general public, and thus to stimulate the advances in science and technology that marked the industrial revolution" (ODNB). At the request of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, she was one of three women given special dispensation to receive the Royal Astronomical Society's Monthly Notices, the others on the mailing list being Mary Somerville and Queen Victoria. Ward died aged 42 after being thrown from a steam-powered automobile invented by the sons of her cousin William Parsons, third Earl of Rosse. Parsons keenly encouraged Ward's interest in microscopy; she was 17 when he built the telescope known as the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" at Birr Castle, which remained the world's largest telescope (in terms of aperture size) until the early 20th century. Provenance: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023), a distinguished antiquarian bookseller and one of the leading experts in Victorian decorative cloth bindings, with his bookplate. Clare Matthews, "Microscopy in Print: Books from the Collection of Gerard L'Estrange Turner", Whipple Library online exhibition, University of Cambridge, 2015. Small quarto. Engraved colour frontispiece, 16 like plates (5 tissue-guarded), numerous diagrams within text. With 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original green diagonal bead-grain cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, double fillet frame and microscope centrepiece stamped in gilt to front cover, identical design stamped in blind to rear cover, cream coated endpapers, gilt edges, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown. Neat ownership initials in blue pencil to front pastedown. Spine ends and corners bumped and gently rubbed, shallow knock to lower edge of rear cover, cloth notably clean and gilt bright, contents foxed, leaf H4 vertically creased: a very good copy.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary full calf decorated in gilt, all edges marbled. Very Good, binding moderately scuffed and worn at the extremities. Pages foxed, tanned and with age-related stains. Former owner inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Mary Ward was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. As the event occurred in 1869, she is the first person known to have been killed by an automobile.