"On the Chemical Action of Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and other Substances, both metallic and non-metallic, and on some Photographic Processes;" "Experimental Researches in Electricity--Sixteenth Series;" "Experimental Researches in Electricity--Seventeenth Series;" "On the Nervous System;" On the influence of Iodine in rendering several Argentine Compounds...;" "On the Minute Structure and Movements of Voluntary Muscle;" "On the Corpuscles of the Blood." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 130 for the Year 1840 Part I & Part II, pp. 1-60, 61-92, 93-128, 245-254, 325-334, 457-502, 595-612.).
London: Royal Society of London, 1840. Quarter Leather. First Edition. [xi]-[xii], [xi]-[xii], [iii]-viii, [2], [1]-14, [1]-620, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Very Good.
A plethora important article in early photograph processes, biology, astronomy, and electricity.
This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates.
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