BOOKS printed for and fold By L. Davis 
and C. R e y m e r Sj in Holborn, 
Printers to the Royal Society. 
I. A N Abridgement of the Philofophical TranfaCtions, from the 
Inditution of the Royal Society in 1665 to the Year 1750; by 
Lowthorp, Jones, Eames, and Martyn, in 12 vol. bed Edition. 
2. The Philofophical TranfaCtions at Large; from the Year 1750 to 
1767, in 15 vcl. 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. Thofe 
who have not made up their Setts may be fup plied with odd Vo- 
lumes by the above Bookfellers. 
3. The Hidory of the Royal Society of London, for improving of 
Natural Knowledge, from its fird Rife : Being a Supplement to the Phi- 
lofophical TranfaCtions. In which the mod 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 fird publifhed : Together with a Ihort Account 
of the Lives of the mod eminent Members fubjoined. By Thomas 
Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society. 4 vol. 4to. illudrated with 
Plates and Figures, originally fold for 3 1 . bound, now at 1 1 . 1 1 s. 6d. 
in Sheets. 
* % * The Third and Fourth Volumes may be had feparate. 
Extradt from the Preface of the French Tranflation of the Philofo- 
phical Tranfadtions, by Dr. Demours ; Printed at Paris, 1759, 4to. 
“ We fee with Pleafure, in reading Dr. Birch’s Hidory of the Royal So- 
“ ciety, the immenfe Labours undertaken with Succefs by that Society, 
“ in order for the Advancement of the Sciences. Their Enquiries at 
“ firji extended to every Thing that could contribute to the Progrefs of 
“ Natural Philofophy in general or particular, Mathematics, and the 
“ Arts, Natural Hidory and Botany, Anatomy, Chemidry, Phyfic, 
“ Geometry, Mechanics, Hydraulics, Algebra, Optics, Adronomy,. 
“ Geography, Hidory, Chronology, Antiquity, &c. In the Regiders 
“ of the Royal Society are to be found many large and curious Dif- 
** courfes upon different Subjedls, which had never been printed in the 
“ Philofophical Tranfadlions, and which deferred a Place in them. Dr. 
“ Birch’s Hidory, which is a faithful Copy of thofe Regiders, will fur- 
“ nidi Materials for rendering this Tranflation more intereding than the 
“ Originals themfelves ” 
4. A Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality, from 1657 to 1 7 5 S 
incluftve. 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 ColieCtion : 1. Natural and Political Obfervations on the Bills of 
Mortality, by Capt. John Graunt, F. R. S. 2. Sir William Petty’s 
E day on Political Arithmetic, concerning the Growth cf the City of the 
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