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7 volumes in 4, comprising:

• Transactions Philosophiques de la Société Royale de Londres. Anne'e M.DCC.XXXI. x, 304 pp. 1741. [bound with] Transactions Philosophiques... Anne'e M.DCC.XXXII. viii, 323 pp. 1741. With engraved frontispiece; 16 folding engraved plates.
• Transactions Philosophiques de la Société Royale de Londres. Anne'e M.DCC.XXXIII. viii, 280 pp. 1740.  [bound with] Transactions Philosophiques... Anne'e M.DCC.XXXIV. vii, [1], 340, 16 pp. 1740. With engraved frontispiece; 11 folding engraved plates.
• Transactions Philosophiques de la Société Royale de Londres. Anne'e M.DCC.XXXV. [6], [iii]-vi, 192 pp. 1738.  [bound with] Transactions Philosophiques... Anne'e M.DCC.XXXVI. [2], viii, 302, 15 pp. 1738. With engraved frontispiece; 13 folding engraved plates.
• Table des Memoires Imprimés dans les Transactions Philosphiques de la Société Royale de Londres. Depuis 1665, jusques en 1735. [10], 297, [3], v, 3-461, lxxvi pp. Engraved frontispiece. 1739.

Begun in 1665, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London is the oldest scientific journal printed in the English-speaking world, and the second oldest in the world, after the French Journal des Sçavan. With old institutional stamps on title pages, a few other markings.