Microscopic views of Kettering-stone, seaweed and sponge Charles George A spectacles seller holding up

A spectacles seller holding up a pair of glasses

A convoy of steamships proceeds up the river watched by crowds in the foreground

The reverse is variously inscribed and printed with a coat of arms: 'MAULL & Co

They will go via Great Tower Street

Microscopic views of Kettering-stone, seaweed and sponge Charles George A spectacles seller holding upIllustrations showing microscopic views of: stone quarried in Kettering, Northamptonshire (Fig. 1); the fibres in a piece of sponge (Fig. 2); a piece of seaweed (Fig. 3). Schem. IX from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon, by Robert Hooke (London, 1665). Original: copperplate engraving. 1665