Memoirs of science and the arts, or, A general abridgement of the transactions published by the principal learned and oeconomical societies established in the different parts of the world
Subtitle: consisting of a number of curious and interesting articles in agriculture, botany, history, antiquities, biography, chemistry, mechanics, &c., &c. : the whole selected with judgment from the transactions of the royal and antiquarian societies of London and Edinburgh, the Linnaean Society, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, the Bath Agricultural Society, Royal Irish Academy, Philosophical Society at Manchester, American Philosophical Society, the African Association, Society of Natural History at Paris, Royal Society of Gottingen, Society of Natural Philosophy and Academy of Science and Belles Lettres at Berlin, the Asiatic transactions, &c.
By: by a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Contributors: St. Aubyn, John, Sir, 1758-1839, inscriber.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. ...
Published: 1798
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Science -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Memoirs of science and the arts; General abridgement of the transactions published by the principal learned and oeconomical societies established in the different parts of the world
Notes: "In three parts.  Illustrated with twenty nine copperplates."

Vol. 1, pt. 1: [2], vii, [1], iv, iv, [1], 6-366, iii, [1] p., XII leaves of plates, II folded tables;  v. 1, pt. 2: p. 367-543, [1], xi, [1], leaves XIII-XIX of plates (2 folded); v. 2, pt. 1: [1], p. iv, p. 3-212, X leaves of plates.

Includes index.

LC copy has inscription: J. St. Aubyn, 1801. Bound in 1 v. Misbound: 1 leaf of prelim. matter to v. 2, pt. 1 bound in before v. 1, pt. 2.

ESTC T171667