Thick quarto. 801 pages. 20th-century black buckram, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION. Complete printed indexes of Volumes 1-70 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Each index arranged in two formats: alphabetically by subject (through page 552) and alphabetically by author (pages 555-end). Twenty entries are recorded for Isaac Newton, eighteen for Christian Huygens, and a full fifty-eight for Robert Boyle. Some intermittent pale spotting, generally a tall, crisp copy.

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Title

A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, from the First to the End of the Seventieth Volume

Publisher

Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly for The Royal Society, London

Publication Date

1787

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

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