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VERY RARE - SCARCE FIRST & FIRST EDITIONS - FIRST ISSUE
RARE LIMITED EDITION of a CELEBRATED & IMPORTANT WORK
TWO WORKS IN 5 VOLUMES - FINE ORIGINAL FULL FINE CALF LEATHER BINDINGS
95 ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED PLATES - MAPS OF CALIFORNIA, PHILIPPINES
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS JOURNAL OF AN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS FROM THE YEAR MDCC
(WHERE MR. LOWTHORP ENDS) TO THE YEAR MDCCXX.
ABRIDG\'D, AND DISPOS\'D UNDER GENERAL HEADS.
In Two Volumes
by
BENJAMIN MOTTE LONDON: Printed for J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, R. Wilkin, J. and B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, W. Taylor, W. and J. Innys, R. Robinson, and J. Osborn. 1721 [published date: 1721]. Rare First edition.4to. 9.5\" x 7.5\" inches (LxB). Pp. [8], v-viii, [16], 1 - 256, 225 - 432; [4], 1 - 228; [4], 1 - 399, [1, blank]; 1 - 265, [1], [6, index] pages, [page 265 incorrectly numbered 259]; with an approbation leaf and general title-page in volume I, and 61 engraved plates (most foldouts), complete as issued. Includes 3 papers by Sir Isaac Newton. Fine original contemporary full calf leather boards, sympathetically rebacked in antique style, using matching brown calf leather, gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands, plus red & green gilt lettered morocco labels.
A very good set of the abridged Philosophical Transactions, complete with all plates, comprising the first edition of the abridgement for 1700-1720 by Benjamin Motte, and the fourth edition of Lowthorp\'s abridgement for 1660-1699, issued to accompany Motte\'s and with indexes covering all five volumes. Following Lowthorp\'s model, Motte\'s abridgement of the following 20 years organised the articles into four parts: Mathematics, Anatomy and Medicine, Physiology and Philology. Included are Abraham De Moivre\'s pioneering study \'Of the laws of chance\' (I, 190-\'[237]\'), Halley on new stars and nebulae, and contributions from Bernoulli, Flamsteed, Cassini, Locke, John Craig, Cotton Mather (observations sent from New England) and Francis Hauksbee; the fourth part includes many of the antiquarian and archeological submissions of Ralph Thoresby, and maps of new islands in the Philippines and of Baja California. Benjamin Motte is better known in his later career as a bookseller, and as publisher of Swift\'s Gulliver\'s Travels. His brother Andrew was a mathematician who translated Newton\'s Principia into English (published by Motte in 1729), and probably assisted him here. Although the abridgement was published with Edmund Halley\'s approval, a rival abridgement by Henry Jones also appeared in 1721 – in the Preface Motte speaks of his readiness to reach an accommodation, \'always frustrated by an imagin\'d Superiority of Learning, or Interest, or something else on the other side\'. Complete as issued. A classic work. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please click on them for a detailed description (See Scans below). Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition.
[SOLD WITH:]THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS AND COLLECTIONS
To the End of the Year 1700.
ABRIDG\'D UNDER GENERAL HEADS.
In Three Volumes
by
JOHN LOWTHROP
LONDON: Printed for J. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A. Ward, et al. MDCCCXXXI, 1731 [published date: 1731]. Rare Fourth Edition. 4to. 9.5\" x 7.5\" inches (LxB). Pp. [12], iv, [64], 620; [4], 915, [1, blank]; [4], 688, [20, index] pages, with an imprimatur leaf and a general title-page in volume I, and 34 plates (most folding]. Fine original contemporary full calf leather boards, sympathetically rebacked in antique style, using matching brown calf leather, gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands, plus red & green gilt lettered morocco labels. A very good set of the abridged Philosophical Transactions, complete with all plates, comprising the first edition of the abridgement for 1700-1720 by Benjamin Motte, and the fourth edition of Lowthorp\'s abridgement for 1660-1699, issued to accompany Motte\'s and with indexes covering all five volumes. Lowthorp\'s abridgement (first published 1705 with Newton\'s approval) had summarised, for the first time in a single work, the major discoveries of the first forty years of the Royal Society, with a roll-call including Bernoulli, Boyle, Cassini, Flamsteed, Halley, Hooke, Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Leibniz, Locke, Newton, Ray, Sloane, Wallis, and Wren.
THE \"OLDEST CONTINUOUS SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL AND SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT RECORD OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND COMMUNICATION OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS\" (PMM). \'If all the books in the world except the Philosophical Transactions were destroyed,, it is safe to say that the foundations of physical science would remain unshaken, and that the vast intellectual progress of the last two centuries would be largely, although incompletely, recorded\' (Huxley, quoted in Norman). It would be impossible to overestimate the historical importance of the Philosophical Transactions, which was first published and financed by Henry Oldenburg from March 1664-65 for the new Royal Society (founded in 1662), and, following his death, published by the Society itself. Nearly every contemporary British scientist and numerous foreign scientists contributed extensively to the Transactions in its first hundred years. Contributors include Thorbern Bergman, Edward Berkeley, Boerhaave, Boscovitch, Borelli, Boyle, Celsius, Euler, Fahrenheit, Ferguson, Flamstead, Franklin, Hales, Halley, Harvey, Hevelius, Hooke, Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Leibnitz, Locke, Malpighi, Morgagni, Newton, Petty, Ray, Redi, Steno, Swammerdam, Wren, and numerous others. Grolier Science 95b; PMM 148 (vol. I); Norman 1694.
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A SCARCE BOOK SET.
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CONDITION REPORT: A rare book set in the original contemporary full calf leather boards, sympathetically rebacked in antique style, using matching brown calf leather, gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands, plus red & green gilt lettered morocco labels (See Scans below), some wear/tear, scuffing to covers, ends & corners (See Scans below), the pages-plates with some age toning, sporadic spotting, soiling, are clean & bright (See Scans below), the bindings are tight & intact (See Scans below). The leather is smooth & supple to the touch (See Scans below). Note: New blank endpapers added(See Scans below). The front top corner of volume 2 of thw Lowthorp set is bumped (See Scans below). There are many close-up pictures for your kind perusal. Please click on any of the 50+ images above & below in the listing for enlarged close-up pictures of details, virtues & flaws (See Scans below).
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