The history of the Royal Society of London for improving of natural knowledge, . from its first rise. In which the most considerable of those papers communicated to the Society, which have not hitherto been published, are inserted in their proper order, as a supplement to the Philosophical transactions. By Thomas Birch, ... Secretary to the Royal Society.
Thomas Birch (1705-1766)
Category
Books
Date
1756 - 1757
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3122610
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.,plates . 4to.. Without the additional unnumbered plate. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: A.3.9-12 [brown ink]; A/8 [pencil]; A.2.3-6 [dark blue ink]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gilt fillet borders; board edges with decorative gilt roll, dges of text-blocks stained red. Spines gilt.
Makers and roles
Thomas Birch (1705-1766)