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ROYAL SOCIETY, at London -- Charles HUTTON, George SHAW & Richard PEARSON (editors). The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ... Abridged, London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1809, volumes III-XVIII only, large 4°, 212 engraved plates (light browning and spotting, volumes III, IX and XVI with blocks broken, library marks, including stamp to verso of each plate, perforation and stamp on titles), mixed institutional bindings (rubbed or worn), ex Lehigh University and JCL -- Thomas SPRAT. The History of the Royal Society of London, London: J. Knapton [and others], 1722, 4°, third edition, engraved armorial frontispiece, title in red and black (frontispiece slightly browned and frayed at outer margin, library marks, including perforation to title, title also soiled, recent ink stains at lower margin of H2 and on K1-2, tear to outer margin of U1), blue cloth.
Together with 2 other histories of the Royal Society by Thomas Birch and Thomas Thomson in 5 volumes; and volumes I-IV of the Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (Manchester, 1789-93). The lot sold not subject to return. (26)
Together with 2 other histories of the Royal Society by Thomas Birch and Thomas Thomson in 5 volumes; and volumes I-IV of the Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (Manchester, 1789-93). The lot sold not subject to return. (26)