Item 26517"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. First Edition. Quarter Leather. [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.....