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XVI from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

Hawkesley is standing with his left hand in his coat pocket and right hand on a folded umbrella

falls from the tilting summit of a breaking pillar which rests on the word 'Adultery'

The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right 'Rhea Americana

7th November 1984

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