London: Richard and John Taylor 1841. FIRST EDITION. With 6 pages letterpress tables of meteorological data. Contemporary gilt-decorated diapered calf with Greek key border rebacked board edges gilt marbled edges. Without the plates. First edition the compiled papers given by members of the Royal Society of London. Twenty-one in all the papers cover light magnetism crystallization optometry medical physics meteorology biology paleontology physiology embryology and mathematics. In addition to the essays the text includes a full list of Royal Society fellows institutions administration committees foreign members and donors. Each part concludes with a meteorological journal for the previous six months. <br /> <br /> The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. It began publishing the Philosophical Transactions in 1665 making it the world’s first scientific journal.<br /> <br /> Garrison-Morton 542 for Bowman’s description of striated muscle “On the minute structure and movements of voluntary musclesâ€. Other articles by Airy Edwarde Sabine David Brewster and John Lubbock among others. Richard and John Taylor unknown
London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reynolds. Printers for the Royal Society 1762. . 1762 14 414 2 p. Folding plates one of which coloured. Calf backed marbled boards rebacked with the original label and endpapers preserved. Armorial bookplate. Contents include a report on the autopsy of King George II with a coloured plate; reports on the Lisbon earthquake of 1761; transit of Venus; eruption of Vesuvius. London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reynolds. Printers for the Royal Society, hardcover
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