PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable Parts of the World. Vol. I for 1665 and 1666. London: T.N. for John Martyn and James Allestry, [1667]. 7 engraved folding plates and one folding table. 4to, modern calf; blank portion of one plate (facing p. 146) repaired, two preliminary pages with marginal repair, affecting a few letters. FIRST APPEARANCE. "The oldest continuous journal of an academy of science. Originally founded after a discussion of the Journal des Savans, edited and financed by Henry Oldenburg, it has served as a model for later published proceedings of other scientific academies. The bibliography of modern science is principally a journal bibliography, descended from these two sources." Grolier/Horblit 95b; PMM 148 -- [With]: BLAGDEN, CHARLES. Experiments on the Cooling of Water below its Freezing Point -- Experiments on the Effect of various Substances in Lowering the Point of Congelation in Water. Both offprints from: Philosophical Transactions. London, 1788. 2 vols., 4to, wrappers and self wrappers. (3)

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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: Giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable Parts of the World. Vol. I for 1665 and 1666. London: T.N. for John Martyn and James Allestry, [1667]. 7 engraved folding plates and one folding table. 4to, modern calf; blank portion of one plate (facing p. 146) repaired, two preliminary pages with marginal repair, affecting a few letters. FIRST APPEARANCE. "The oldest continuous journal of an academy of science. Originally founded after a discussion of the Journal des Savans, edited and financed by Henry Oldenburg, it has served as a model for later published proceedings of other scientific academies. The bibliography of modern science is principally a journal bibliography, descended from these two sources." Grolier/Horblit 95b; PMM 148 -- [With]: BLAGDEN, CHARLES. Experiments on the Cooling of Water below its Freezing Point -- Experiments on the Effect of various Substances in Lowering the Point of Congelation in Water. Both offprints from: Philosophical Transactions. London, 1788. 2 vols., 4to, wrappers and self wrappers. (3)