Quarto. 799-834pp. Drop-head title. With two engraved folding plates, one depicting a stone chimney, the other a tabled of tide times. Bound in recent blue paper boards. Some marginal damp-staining throughout with worming to top corner of all leaves and folding table.

The illustrated article in this issue is an extract from a letter of President of the Philosophical Society at Oxford, mathematician John Wallis (1616-1703), to chemist and director of experiments at said institution, Robert Plot (1640-1696), 'concerning two very large Stone Chimneys, with a peculiar sort of Arch-work thereon'. Also contained within is astronomer John Flamsteed's (1646-1719) 'Tide-Table', showing the true times of high-water at London Bridge for the year 1685, with directions for its use.

Philosophical Transactions, latterly The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, was established in 1665 as the first journal dedicated to the publication of new and often revolutionary discoveries, experimental research and speculative essays within natural philosophy. Over the years the Philosophical Transactions have been home to the most important scientific authors and luminaries in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and zoology; including Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, and Charles Darwin.