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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF MICROSCOPES, OBJECTIVES AND ACCESSORY APPARATUS

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Overview

Pale grey card cover with black lettering. Microscopes manufactured and supplied by W.Watson & Sons, Opticians to Her Majesty's Government, Lond and Melbourne, Australia. Established 1837. Back cover has illustration of Warehouse & Show Rooms, Factory for Photographic Cabinet Work, and Factory for Scientific Instrument making and Optical Glass Grinding, in London. 68 pages, illustrated in black & white. Tenth Edition of Catalogue.

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cwa-org-51-B2009.81

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Inscriptions and markings

W. WATSON & SONS

Keywords

Microscopes & Accessories

Statement of significance

Early Catalogue supplied to Merchants, Shoppers and the Trade. 1800's

Albany Historical Society Inc

Albany Historical Society Inc

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