Boyle, Robert | New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air …, Oxford, 1662, 3 parts in one volume

Boyle, Robert

New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, (Made, for the most part, in a New Pneumatical Engine). Oxford: H. Hall for Tho. Robinson, 1662

Second edition and first to incorporate Boyle's tracts against Linus and Hobbes.

Three parts in one volume, 4to (194 x 150 mm). Woodcut headpieces and initials, one plate (of two); without the general title-leaf (Madan's and Fulton's "half-title," general title leaf is leaf [A]1 of the first part, title-leaf for part 1 is [A]2 in the same quire), ink stamp to title, occasional dampstaining, stray spotting. Old sheep, edges speckled red; rubbed.

REFERENCES

ESTC R26549; Fulton 14; Madan 2586

PROVENANCE

Robert S. Dunham (acquired from Ranschburg in November 1947; Sotheby's New York, 11 December 1993, lot 643, [part])