If you don't have a readers pass, I highly recommend you go online and get yourself one.
My tutor recommended I get one and request to see Robert Hooke's Micrographia from 1665.
It was beautiful and so fragile that it was tied together with string. The illustrations were so detailed and much bigger than i'd assumed from photographs. And it smelt really old, in a cool book way.
My favourite part was near the front, the letter to the King (who i've now discovered was Charles II). Here's a lil' bit I copied down.
To the King,
Sir, I do here most humbly lay this small present at your majesties royal feet. And though it comes accompany'd with two disadvantages, the meannes's of the author, and of the subject, yet in both I am incouraged by the greatness of your mercy and you knowledge. (Then it goes on a bit about about royal stuff and science, the is signed)
Your Majesties most humble and most obedient subject and servant,
Robert Hooke
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