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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LVI For the Year 1766.

Royal Society · 1767

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

... 1767. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(92-132). 2 folding plates. Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Articles comprise XIII. A hepatitis, with unfavourable symptoms, treated by Robert Smith; XIV. Experiments on the Peruvian bark by Arthur Lee; XV. Novorum q...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LV For the Year 1765.

Royal Society · 1766

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

... 1766. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(91-142). 1 folding plate. Disbound, without stitching and in two portions, sl. stained and lightly browned. Articles comprise XV. A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Worshipful Company of Ap...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LIII For the Year 1763

Royal Society · 1764

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

... 1764. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(240-264). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Article comprises XXXVIII. An account of the eclipse of the Sun, April 1, 1764: In a letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, Pres. R. S. from Mr. James F...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LIII For the Year 1763

Royal Society · 1764

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... 1764. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(201-230). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Article comprises XXXIII. An account of an earthquake in Siberia: In a letter from Mons. Weymarn to Dr. Mounsey, Principal Physician of the Emperor of Russia, F. R. S. Tran...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LIII For the Year 1763

Royal Society · 1764

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

... 1764. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(173-194). 2 folding plates. Disbound, without stitching, pages detached, sl. stained and lightly browned. Article comprises XXXI. Rules and examples for limiting the cases in which the rays of refracted light may be reunited into a colourless pe...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LIII For the Year 1763

Royal Society · 1764

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... 1764. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. xii + pp.(1-26). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned, several page loose. With title page and contents, articles comprise I. An account of the Sun's distance from the Earth, deduced from Mr. Short's observations relating to...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LIII For the Year 1763

Royal Society · 1764

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

... 1764. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(127-3) folding plates, Disbound, without stitching all leaves detached, sl. stained and lightly browned. Articles comprise XXVI. An account of some subterraneous apartments, with Etruscan inscriptions and paintings, discovered at Civita Turchino...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LII For the Year 1761.

Royal Society · 1762

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... 1762. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(640-653). Folding plate. Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Articles comprise CIII. Experiments to prove that water is not incompressible by John Canton; CIV. An account of the eclipse of the Sun, October 16, 1762, in ...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LII For the Year 1761.

Royal Society · 1762

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.... 1762. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(611-628). Folding plate. Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Article comprises C. The observations of the internal contact of Venus with the Sun's limb, in the late transit, made in different places of Europe, compared...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LII For the Year 1761.

Royal Society · 1762

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... 1762. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(507-518). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Articles comprise LXXX. An account of a remarkable agitation of the sea, July 28, 1761, and of two thunder-storms in Cornwall: In a letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. Se...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LII For the Year 1761.

Royal Society · 1762

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... 1762. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(495-506). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Article comprises LXXIX. An account of a work, intituled, Jacobi Christiani Schaeffer icones et descriptio Fungorum quorundam singularium et memorabilium; simul Fungorum Bav...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LII For the Year 1761.

Royal Society · 1762

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... 1762. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(479-494). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Articles comprise LXXV. Observations on Auroræ boreales in Sweden: In a letter to Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F. R. S. from Mr. Thorbern Bergman, of Upsal; LXXVI. An account of the...

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LII For the Year 1761.

Royal Society · 1762

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..... 1762. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(447-453). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned, some leaves detached. Article comprises LXVIII. Observations on the tides in the Straits of Gibraltar; by Henry More, Esq;

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LXXVI Part I.

Royal Society · 1779

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

... 1779. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. Disbound, without stitching, partially uneopned, leaves detached, sl. stained and lightly browned, sl. creased to head. Article comprises IX. Observations and remarks on those stars which the astronomers of the last century suspected to be changeabl...

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: In Which are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and An English Grammar. [Bound with] A SUPPLEMENT to Johnson’s English Dictionary: Of Which the Palpable Errors are Attempted to be Rectified, and its Material Omissions Supplied by George Mason.

Johnson, Samuel. · 18161801

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington ... 1816. [with] 1801. 11th Ed. Corrected and Revised. 2 vols. 4to. T.p. + (a-i2]). + (B-[6S4]) + (T.p. + (B-[604]) + T.p. + [ii] + (a-[Ff4]). Engraved port. frontis. Some light browning, a.e. marbled, rebound by Temple Bindery in gilt rule ed...

MEMOIR OF THE LIFE of ... With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters. Edited by Two of Her Daughters.

Fry, Elizabeth. · 1847

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Charles Gilpin 1847. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xii + 495pp. +[iv]. publ. adverts. + viii + 524pp. + [iv]. publ. adverts. Port. frontiss. Some light browning, gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, hinges cracked, spines chipped and faded. Comprehensive account of the life of the leading P...

THE GIL BLAS OF REVOLUTION. Or the Confession of Lawrence Giffard.

Picard, L.B. · 1825

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

... Saunders and Otley ... 1825. 1st Ed. 3 vols. 12mo. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, marbled paper whitened and marked to tail of pastedown of vol. 1., some light browning, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, dec. gilt tooling to spine, rubbed with some...

DE INSTRVCTIONE SACERDOTVM Et Peccatis Capitalbvs Libri VIII. Quibus hac nouislima editione, præter Tractatum de Censuris, & Bulla Cæne Domini ... Cum Indice omnium rerum & materiarú copiosissimo.

Toleti, Francisci. · 1609

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

Antverpiæ Ex Typographia Gisleni Ianssenii 1609. Sm. thick 8vo. [xvi] + 1196pp. T.p. device. Latin text. Some browning, several early inscriptions, ink stamp to t.p. frayed with loss along head, modern e.ps., soiled vellum, crack to spine, recased. Francisco de Toledo (1532–1...

POESEOS ASIATICÆ COMMENTARIORUM Libri Sex, Cum Appendice; Subjicitur Limon, Seu Miscellaneorum Liber:

Jones, Gulielmo [William]. · 1774

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London E. Typographeo Richardsoniano, ... T. Cadell 1774. 1st Ed. [iv] + xxxi + 542pp. + [i] Errata. 3 engraved plates. Latin, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Persian text. Some light browning, with the signature of Robert Travers A.M. to t.p., new e.ps., rebound in speckled calf,...

TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD. A Personal Narrative. Volume II [only].

Burton, Richard F. and Cameron, Verney Lovett. · 1883

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,090)

Chatto & Windus 1883. 1st Ed. vi + 381pp. Chromolitho. frontis., dec. e.ps., contemporary half morocco with cloth boards, some wear, gilt lettered spine. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: ‘... an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron, who was the first European to cross ce...