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HALLEY, EDMOND; et al. Miscellanea Curiosa; being, A Collection of some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature,accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age. Together with several Discourses read before the Royal Society. Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 19 plates; folding map of winds and currents. [24], 401, [1]; [8], 372; [6], 430, [2] pages, including initial leaf in Volume 2 with table on recto and bookseller ads on verso, and initial blank in Volume 3. 3 volumes. 8vo, 195x118 mm, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked; scattered marginal foxing. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Strickland of Boynton. London: W. B. for James and John Knapton and John Clarke, 1726-23-27
Collection originally published in 1705-07 reprinting papers by members of the Royal Society. The first volume includes writings by Newton on his theories of the tides, light and color, and the moon; Hooke on the marine barometer; and Halley on trade winds and monsoons, with the chart of winds and currents. The second volume is devoted to mathematics, with papers by Halley, De Moivre, and Wallis among others, and the third to voyages and travels, with accounts by John Clayton of the flora and fauna of Virginia and James Wallace on Darien. Alden 726/101; Babson 237; Wallis 393.457; Wolf I, 317.
