BOOKS printed for and fold by L. Davis 
and C. R e y M e r s, in Holborn, 
Printers to the Royal Society. 
I. AN Abridgement of the Philofophical TranfaCtions, from the 
Inflitution of the Royal Society in 1665 to the Year 1750; by 
Lowthorp, Jones, Eames, and Martyn, in 12 vol. bell Edition. 
2. The Philofophical TranfaCtions at Large; from the Year 1750 to 
1 767, in 15 vol. which continue and compleat the above Abridgement 
to the prefent Time. In all 27 Volumes in Quarto. 
N. B. A very few Setts of this Work can be compleated. Thole 
who have not made up their Setts may he fupplied with odd Vo- 
lumes by the above Bookfellers. 
3. The Hiltory of the Royal Society of London, for improving of 
Natural Knowledge, from its firit Rife : Being a Supplement to the Phi- 
lofophical TranfaCtions. In which the moll confiderable of thofe Papers 
and curious Experiments, communicated to the Society, when the Philo- 
fophical TranfaCtions were not regularly carried on, are inferted in their 
proper Order, and now fir ft publilhed : Together with a Ihort Account 
of the Lives of the molt eminent Members fubjoined. By Thomas 
Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society. 4 vol. 4to. illulirated with 
Plates and Figures,' originally fold for 3 1 . bound, now at 1 1 . 1 1 s. 6d. 
in Sheets. N. B. The Third and Fourth Volumes may be had feparate. 
5£f= Extract from the Preface of the French Tranllation of the Philofo- 
phical TranfaCtions, by Dr. Demours ; Printed at Paris, 1759, 4to. 
“ We fee with Pleafure, in reading Dr. Birch’s Hillory of the Royal So- 
“ ciety, the immenfe Labours undertaken with Succefs by that Society, 
« in order for the Advancement of the Sciences. Their Enquiries 
“ firjl extended to every Thing that could contribute to the Progrefs of 
“ Natural Philofophy in general or particular. Mathematics, and the 
tt Arts, Natural Hillory and Botany, Anatomy, Chemiltry, Phyfic, 
“ Geometry, Mechanics, Hydraulics, Algebra, Optics, Aitronomy, 
« Geography, Hillory, Chronology, Antiquity, &c. In the Regiliers 
a 0 f t ] ie Royal Society are to be found many large and curious Dif- 
a courfes upon different Subjects, which had never been printed in the 
a philofophical TranfaCtions, and which deferved a Place in them. Dr. 
*t Birch’s Hillory, which is a faithful Copy of thole Regiliers, will fut'- 
it n jfh Materials for rendering this Tranllation more interelling than the 
“ Originals themfelves.” 
4. A Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality, from 1657 to 1738 
inclufive. Together with feveral other Bills of an earlier Date. As a 
Specimen of the Ufe which may be made of them, there are fubjoined 
to this Collection : I. Natural and Political Obfervations on the Bills of 
Mortality, by Capt. John Graunt, F. R. S. 2. Sir William Petty’s 
Effay on Political Arithmetic, concerning the Growth of the City of 
London; with the Meal'ures, Periods, Caufes, and Confequences there- 
of* ". Obfervations on the pail Growth and prefent State of the City 
3 ‘ of. 
