Lot Essay
(i) The first scientific journal.
Details
ROYAL SOCIETY. (i) Philosophical Transactions ... vol. I [- vol. III], London: John Martyn, 1667-1669, 3 volumes in one volume, numbers 1-44, 4° (215 x 162mm.), 14 plates, all but 2 folding, one folding table (wormholes to first 15 leaves repaired partly affecting one or two letters of text, some leaves wormed partly heavily wormed with loss of few letters, new endpapers, leaves soiled & stained), contemporary German sprinkled calf (slightly worn). [Horblit 95b; PMM 148].
(ii) WELD, Charles Richard. A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents, London: John W. Parker, 1848, 2 volumes, 8° (222 x 140mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved plates, illustrations in the text, uncut (occasional light spotting), original cloth, gilt arms of the Royal Society to covers (spines and boards edges faded, corners bumped).
With 2 other books. (5)
(ii) WELD, Charles Richard. A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents, London: John W. Parker, 1848, 2 volumes, 8° (222 x 140mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved plates, illustrations in the text, uncut (occasional light spotting), original cloth, gilt arms of the Royal Society to covers (spines and boards edges faded, corners bumped).
With 2 other books. (5)
Provenance
(i) Edward Stratford, 1764, inscription to title.