Record Contemplatio philosophica a posthumous work of the late Brook Taylor, L.L.D., F.R.S. ... ; to which is prefixed a life of the author by his grandson, Sir William Young, Bart. ... ; with an appendix, containing sundry original papers, letters from the Count Raymond de Montmort, Lord Bolingbroke, Marcilly de Villette, Bernouilli, &c | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

Contemplatio philosophica a posthumous work of the late Brook Taylor, L.L.D., F.R.S. ... ; to which is prefixed a life of the author by his grandson, Sir William Young, Bart. ... ; with an appendix, containing sundry original papers, letters from the Count Raymond de Montmort, Lord Bolingbroke, Marcilly de Villette, Bernouilli, &c

Former owner:: Andrade, E. N. da C (Edward Neville da Costa),) 1887-1971 DSI Search this; Walpole, Horace 1717-1797 DSI Search this

Physical description:: iv, 150 pages, [1] leaf of plates portrait 24 cm (8vo)

Notes:: At head of title: Not published; Limited edition of 100 copies; The engraved portrait frontispiece is signed: R. Earlom sculp.; English short title catalogue t134032; SCDIRB copy 39088016713406 has bookplates: 1 (armorial; mounted on page iv) Sigillum Horatii Comitis de Orford [presumably Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford]; 2. From the books of E.N. da C. Andrade, Fellow of the Royal Society; 3. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Special Collections Endowment; SCDIRB copy has a later gilt-tooled red morocco leather binding with gauffred gilt edges