Philosophical Magazine and Journal (The) ... , edited by Alexander Tilloch, vol.50, 6 engraved pl

Philosophical Magazine and Journal (The) ... , edited by Alexander Tilloch, vol.50, 6 engraved plates at end, 2 folding, some spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1817 ~ Edinburgh Academic Annual for MDCCCXL ... , advertisement leaf, half-title, final leaf with printed note, ex-library copy with bookplates on front endpapers, original cloth, a little rubbed, [Not in Bib. Mech. Cat.], Edinburgh, 1840; and 3 others, scientific essays including 2 bound volumes, 8vo (5).*** The first includes Some new Researches on Flame by Sir Humphry Davy, On A'rial Navigation by Sir George Cayley and On the Resistance of Solids ... by Thomas Tredgold; the second On the Laws of the Conduction of Heat ... by W.J.Macquorn Rankine.