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Lot 15
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: FIRST ISSUE. Philosophical Transactions Numb 1. Munday [sic], March 6, 1664/5. London: John Martyn and James Allestry, 1664/5.
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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: FIRST ISSUE.
Philosophical Transactions Numb 1. Munday [sic], March 6, 1664/5. London: John Martyn and James Allestry, 1664/5.
8vo. Original self-wrappers, folding cloth chemise, red goatskin backed custom box. Disbound, paper strip added along inner margin of title, soiling to first page.
Provenance: early manuscript note to title page; John D. Stanitz (1920-2011); sold, his sale, Sotheby New York, April 25, 1984, lot 342.
FIRST ISSUE, THE STANITZ COPY, of the earliest scientific journal, and oldest continuous journal of science: "If all the books in the world except the Philosophical Transactions were destroyed, it is safe to say that the foundations of physical science would remain unshaken, and that the vast intellectual progress of the last two centuries would be largely, although incompletely, recorded" (T.H. Huxley, in Norman 1694). Contains an announcement of Robert Hooke's observation of "A Spot in one of the Belts of Jupiter," and the prospectus for Robert Boyle's New Observations and Experiments in order to an Experimental History of Cold. Grolier/Horblit 95b; PMM 148.
8vo. Original self-wrappers, folding cloth chemise, red goatskin backed custom box. Disbound, paper strip added along inner margin of title, soiling to first page.
Provenance: early manuscript note to title page; John D. Stanitz (1920-2011); sold, his sale, Sotheby New York, April 25, 1984, lot 342.
FIRST ISSUE, THE STANITZ COPY, of the earliest scientific journal, and oldest continuous journal of science: "If all the books in the world except the Philosophical Transactions were destroyed, it is safe to say that the foundations of physical science would remain unshaken, and that the vast intellectual progress of the last two centuries would be largely, although incompletely, recorded" (T.H. Huxley, in Norman 1694). Contains an announcement of Robert Hooke's observation of "A Spot in one of the Belts of Jupiter," and the prospectus for Robert Boyle's New Observations and Experiments in order to an Experimental History of Cold. Grolier/Horblit 95b; PMM 148.