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  • Optical instruments including Dallmeyer's triplet. Photolithograph by Simonau et Toovey , ca. 1860.
  • A collection of telescopes and other optical instruments. Engraving.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, and diagrams of the eye surgery with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations and anatomical diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • An optical experiment using a giant lens to reflect sun-rays to create fire, with optical instruments scattered and fountains in a Baroque setting. Line engraving by C.N. Cochin the elder, 1737, after J. de La Jouë.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An old man wearing spectacles and his four pupils experiment using optical instruments and materials. Line engraving by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • English compound microscope of the 17th century assigned to Christopher Cock, Optical Instrument maker. Vellum covered body with tripod mount.
  • John Thomas Quekett. Mezzotint by W. Walker, c. 1850, after E. Walker.
  • A woman and a boy are looking at prints with the aid of a lens and mirror; an antique urn and a guitar in the background. Coloured stipple print by J.F. Cazenave after L.L. Boilly, ca. 1793.
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing a variety of subjects studied there. Line engraving by G. Herth after G. Stein.
  • A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.