Selections from the Fox Pointe Manor Library

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Lot 39
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Boyle, Robert

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Description

  • Short Memoirs for the Natural experimental History of Mineral Waters. London: Samuel Smith, 1684-85
  • paper, ink, leather
8vo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.; 158 x 97 mm.) Some dampstaining and mold, lacking final blank. Modern half green morocco. Slipcase.

Literature

Wing B4023; Partington II, 534; Fulton 159

Catalogue Note

First edition. "Boyle proposed to study all of the physical and chemical properties of the various mineral waters, even including such properties as viscosity" (Fulton).