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Item #26521 "Account of of the Organs of Speech of the Orang Outang;" "On the Precession of the...

"Account of of the Organs of Speech of the Orang Outang;" "On the Precession of the Equinoxes produced by the Sun's Attraction" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXIX for the Year 1779, Part I & Part II, pp. [601]-610, 689-788, 1027-1048).

London: Royal Society of London, 1779, 1780. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iii-viii, 323, [2], [v]-vii, [325]-696, [1] pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More

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Item #26517 "A Report of the Committee Appointed by the Royal Society, to Consider of a Method...

"A Report of the Committee Appointed by the Royal Society, to Consider of a Method for Securing the Powder Magazines at Purfleet;" "Mr. Wilson's Dissent to Part of the Preceding Report;" "A Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. Pr. R. S. on Pointed Conductors;" "Account of a new Hygromter" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXIII, Part I & Part II; pp. 42-47, 66; 404-460.).

London: Royal Society of London, 1773, 1774. Quarter Leather. First Edition. [2], v-viii, 218, v-vii, 221-507, [1] pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Franklin and company's proposal for protecting the magazines at Purfleet, Wilson's dissent, and the group's letter saying they stand by their original assertions. Lengthty report on Deluc's development of a new hygrometer that used mercury instead of alcohol as the indicator fluid. Deluc's two folding plate with two separate illustrations was engraved by Basire. Also contains papers by numerous other authors on a variety of..... More

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Item #26486 "A Letter from Mr. John Freke, F. R. S. Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital to the...

"A Letter from Mr. John Freke, F. R. S. Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital to the Royal Society, Relating a Case of Extraordinary Exostoses on the Back of a Boy;" "A Description of Needles Made for Operations on the Eyes, and of Some Instruments for the Ears, by the Same." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. XLI For the Years 1739, 1740, 1741; pp. 269-370, 847-851.).

London: Royal Society of London, 1744. Quarter Leather. First Edition. [4], [6], 873, [21] pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Freke's observation and the earliest accurate description of myositis ossificans progressiva (Garrison & Morton 4731). Cleland's paper proposes remedies for deafness caused by obstructions in the auditory passages (Garrison & Morton 3355). Very Good. More

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Item #29130 ACCURATE PREDICTION OF STONEHENGE DATE: “An Attempt to Ascertain the Date of the...

ACCURATE PREDICTION OF STONEHENGE DATE: “An Attempt to Ascertain the Date of the Original Construction of Stonehenge from its Orientation” (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 69, pp. 137-147).

London: Royal Society of London, 1902. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [1], 501 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and corners with marbled paper insets to covers. Five raised bands with gold titling to spine, call number handwritten in white ink at base of spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and Frances Cranmer Penrose (1817-1903) acccurately predict the date of Stonehenge (1680 BC) by measuring the difference between its orientation and the direction of sunrise at the summer solstice (1 degree and 12 arc seconds) and calculating how many years ago this would have been given changes in the Earth's rotation..... More

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Item #26554 "On the Method of Determining, from the Real Probabilities of Life, the Value of a...

"On the Method of Determining, from the Real Probabilities of Life, the Value of a Contingent Reversion in Which Three Lives are Involved in the Survivorship. By Mr. William Morgan, Communicated by the Rev. Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S.;" "An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium;" "Additional Experiments and Observations Relating to the Principle of Acidity, the Decomposition of Water, and Phlogiston." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. LXXIX (79) for the Year 1789 Part I & Part II, pp. 40-54, 71-78, 289-299).

London: Royal Society of London, 1789. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iii-vi, [1], [1]-138, v-vi, [139]-333 pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
An actuarial paper, an article on the development of the fetus, and a piece on phlogiston theory (the belief there was an element called phlogiston that was released during combustion). This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More

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Item #29131 KARL PEARSON ON INTELLIGENCE: “On the Inheritance of the Mental Characters in Man;"...

KARL PEARSON ON INTELLIGENCE: “On the Inheritance of the Mental Characters in Man;" "On the Influence of Natural Selection on the Variability and Correlation of Organs;" and "On the Correlation of Intellectual Ability with the Size and Shape of the Head” (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 69, pp. 153--155, 330-333, 333-342).

London: Royal Society of London, 1902. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [1], 501 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and corners with marbled paper insets to covers. Five raised bands with gold titling to spine, call number handwritten in white ink at base of spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
Three papers by Karl Pearson (1857-1936) on inherited intelligence and the correlation of intelligance and physical features. Pearson was also a proponent of eugenics. Also contains Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and Frances Cranmer Penrose's (1817-1903) article, “An Attempt to Ascertain the Date of the Original Construction of Stonehenge from its Orientation” that acccurately predicted the..... More

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Item #27362 THE EDISON EFFECT: “On a peculiar behaviour of glow lamps when raised to high...

THE EDISON EFFECT: “On a peculiar behaviour of glow lamps when raised to high incandescence” (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 38, pp. 219-230).

London: Royal Society of London, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1], 506 pp. 8vo. Green cloth bindings with burgundy title patch and gold titling to spine of each volume, call number handwritten in white ink at base of each spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
William Henry Preece (1834–1913) confirmed Thomas Edison's experiments demonstrating thermionic emission and coined the term, "Edison effect." Very Good. More

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Item #27435 PERCEPTION OF SOUND: "On the Amplitude of Sound-waves" (Proceedings of the Royal...

PERCEPTION OF SOUND: "On the Amplitude of Sound-waves" (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 26 No. 181, pp. 248-249).

London: Royal Society of London, 1877. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, v, 569 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine.
Rayleigh's seminal analysis of the perception of sound. Basis for his famous book on the topic "The Theory of Sound" (1877/1878). Fine. More

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Item #29352 A General View of the Natural History of the Atmosphere, and of Its Connection with...

A General View of the Natural History of the Atmosphere, and of Its Connection with the Sciences of Medicine and Agriculture; Including an Essay on the Causes of Epidemical Diseases (2 Volumes).

Edinburgh, Scotland: Abernathy & Walker, 1808. Full Leather. First Edition. xvi, 403, vii, 406 pp. 8vo. Beautifully bound dark blue leather boards with both a gold and blind embossed border to cover boards; gold tooling, blind embossing to spines. Slight wear to boards due to age, two scuffs on spine, head and foot, of Volume I. Marbled endpapers, very clean within.
Both volumes inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper. Very Good. More

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