Science & Natural History. Derham (W., F.R.S., editor), ...

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Science & Natural History. Derham (W., F.R.S., editor), Miscellanea Curiosa, Containing a Collection Of some of the Principal Phænomena in Nature [...], Being the Most Valuable Discourses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, three-volume set, mixed editions, London: Printed for James and John Knapton, et al., 1726-27, volume I with engraved frontispiece, 19 engraved plates throughout, 18 of which fold, volume III lacking gathering E but F duplicated in its place, contemporary calf, volume I's upper-cover repaired, volume III's upper-cover detached; all three with some chips and bumps, red-speckled edges, contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscriptions to ffeps: J: Forster: 1731, 8vo, Derham (W., Canon of Windsor, et al.), Physico-Theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation [...], eighth edition, London: Printed by W. Innys and R. Manby, 1732, 1 fold-out engraved plate only, contemporary calf gilt, slightly later 18th century armorial female ownership stamp to recto pastedown: a chevron between three moor's heads, within a lozenge, 8vo, Stillingfleet (Benjamin), Miscellaneous Tracts [...], second edition, London: Printed and sold by R. and J. Dodsley, et al., 1762, contemporary calf gilt, 8vo, De La Beche (The Late Sir Henry), Reeks (Trenham), & Rudler (F.W.), Catalogue of Specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology [...], second edition, London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1871, original cloth boards as issued (spine perished), 8vo, Arago [(François)] & Kelly (Walter K., translator), Popular Lectures on Astronomy, Delivered at the Royal Observatory of Paris, first edition thus, London: Whittaker and Co., 1841, printed in parallel columns, in-text illustrations, bound with another title viz. European travel, contemporary quarter-calf, armorial bookplate and ink MS inscription of: George Canney, M.D., 8vo, First Reports of the Proceedings [...] of The British Association for the Advancement of Science, York: Thomas Wilson and Sons, 1832, original wrappers, giving way, 8vo, odd volume of Hooper's Rational Recreations, 1782, folding and full-page plates, 8vo, Hutton facsimile, (10).