"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