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SPRAT, THOMAS. The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge . . . Second Edition Corrected. 2 folding engraved plates. [16], 438, [2] pages, including initial license leaf with engraved arms of the Society on verso, and final blank. 4to, 203x154 mm, contemporary panelled calf gilt with modern leather lettering piece, recased, endpapers conspicuously renewed, front cover detached, rear joint cracked, cords intact; plates heavily foxed, text clean. Signatures of (the mathematician?) Brook Taylor and M. W. Turner on title; bookplate of the Cambridge geophysicist Sir Edward Bullard (1907–80). DSB XII, 580-87; Norman 1989 (1667 original edition). London: Rob. Scot et al., 1702
