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Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) Wallis's New Game of Genius, or Compendium of Inventions connected with the Arts, Sciences and Manufactures...for the Amusement and Instruction of Youth of both Sexes, hand-coloured engraved sheet with 36 fine aquatint vignettes around title and central view, dissected and mounted on linen, c.380 x 475mm., lightly soiled, title faintly offset, folding into original marbled board slip-case with hand-coloured aquatint view of a paddle-steamer & title mounted on upper cover, rubbed, a little soiled and marked, [Whitehouse p.39], small 4to, E.Wallis, [c.1835].⁂ Scarce game depicting a variety of activities including glass-blowing, a magic lantern, printing, a camera obscura, ballooning, watch-making, a microscope, carriage-building and an early railway engine travelling on a bridge over a river with paddle-steamer below. Library Hub lists only the BL copy in the UK, WorldCat adds another in the National Library of Scotland plus 5 in America.
Original vintage army recruitment poster: It's a worth-while life Join the Regular Army Apply to any Army Information Office or Employment Exchange, or write to the War Office (MP6), London, S.W.1. Great image of a young soldier in a science laboratory looking through a microscope against a deep orange background, the text in stylised yellow and black letters. Prepared for the War Office by the Central Office of Information. Printed for Her Majesty Stationery Office by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London. Very good condition, creases on margins, light folds.Year of printing: 1950s, country of printing: UK, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 75.5x50.5.
BOXED MICROSCOPE & MICROSCOPE SLIDES a brass and metal monocular microscope by W Watson & Sons, marked Holos Fram 10878 and in a fitted box with additional lenses. Also with a few microscope slides in a small box, including Shakspere painted by N Hilliard (microdot slide), and other vintage slides including makers such as Flatters & Garnett, Ward of Manchester, and E Wheeler.
Early 20th Century mahogany table cabinet, fitted twenty shallow drawers, nineteen of these with numbered handles, enclosing a selection of microscope slides, the cabinet 24cm x 21.5cm x 30cm high Condition: Flush-fitted handle to roof has tarnished, general scratches commensurate with age and use, minor loss to back edge of roof, a few tight cracks to hinged front door, lock mechanism removed, top tray is missing its numbered knob handle - **General condition consistent with age
Early 20th Century lacquered brass and anodised monocular microscope, R. & J. Beck, London, No.7147, with rack-and-pinion coarse focusing on a U-shaped base, 25.5cm high, in mahogany box, together with a further box of glass microscope slides and a second vacant box (3) Condition: General wear to anodising and also some wear to edges of U-shaped stage (lacquered brass), case is missing one of the two objectives, 34 of 36 slides are present in the 6 trays of the microscope slide box, the second box is entirely vacant (ie does not contain trays or slides) - **General condition consistent with age
A collection of 70 microscopic slides with miniature photos of paintings and fossils, insects and fauna from around the world, together with a large cased microscope and five various cased small monocular microscopes including an example by J H Steward, a map reading magnifier and other optics

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