Boyle, Robert

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

A Continuation Of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching The Spring And Weight Of The Air, and Their Effects … Whereto Is Annext a Short Discourse of the Atmospheres of Consistent Bodies. Oxford: Printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1669
paper, ink, leather

4to (8 x 5 7/8 in.; 203 x 149 mm). Errata leaf A2, half-title (b1), vertical half-title and 8 engraved folding plates at the end; minor dampstaining to lower outer corners. Modern marbled boards, manuscript paper label on spine and former call number.

Provenance

John Crerar Library, Chicago (bookplate, stamp on front cover, and deaccession stamp dated 29 June 1984)

Literature

Wing B3934; ESTC 34411; Fulton 16

Catalogue Note

First edition of this first continuation. Plate V, figure 1 shows the experiment in which Boyle drew water up with his pump to the top of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.