Boyle, Robert

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Propos’d in Familiar Discourses to a Friend, by Way of Invitation to The Study of It. Oxford: Printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1663
paper, ink, leather

Two parts in one volume, 4to (7 3/4 x 6 in.; 197 x 152 mm). Label title (A1),section title to Part I (A2), general half-title (*1), title-pages for Part I (*2) and Part II (S4), both titles within double rules, section title to Part II (a1), half-title for the appendix to the first section of Part II (2P1), index to Part II (3f2–3h1v), errata leaf (3H2), woodcut initials and headpieces; minor dampstaining along inside margins of Part II, some light soiling to front and back. Calf antique, maroon lettering piece, marginal staining to endpapers from turn-ins.

Literature

Wing B4029; ESTC R19249; Fulton 50; Krivatsy 1676; Madan 3:2634

Catalogue Note

First edition. "The work as a whole shows a most surprising knowledge of natural history, medicine, physics, and chemistry, in many respects far in advance of his age, and it is of special importance for its comments on medicine" (Fulton).