Lot 206
Boyle (Robert) A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical...The I. Part, Oxford, Henry Hall Printer to the University, for Richard Davis, 1669.
Hammer Price: £800
Description
Boyle (Robert) A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and their Effects. The I. Part, first edition, final f. with vertical half-title (very small marginal ink-spot), 8 folding engraved plates, bookplate of John Crerar Library of Chicago with de-accession stamp, small numerical ink-stamp to foot of *2, a few plates trimmed just shaving image at foot, occasional soiling, light browning to margins, 20th century marbled boards, spine with paper label titled in ink, library blind-stamp to foot of upper cover, loss to spine foot, some wear to extremities, [Fulton 16; Wing B3934], small 4to, Oxford, Henry Hall Printer to the University, for Richard Davis, 1669.
⁂ Plate V, fig. I, shows the experiment in which Boyle sucked water up with his pump to the top of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. Part II of the Continuation appeared in Latin in 1680 and in English in 1682.
Description
Boyle (Robert) A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and their Effects. The I. Part, first edition, final f. with vertical half-title (very small marginal ink-spot), 8 folding engraved plates, bookplate of John Crerar Library of Chicago with de-accession stamp, small numerical ink-stamp to foot of *2, a few plates trimmed just shaving image at foot, occasional soiling, light browning to margins, 20th century marbled boards, spine with paper label titled in ink, library blind-stamp to foot of upper cover, loss to spine foot, some wear to extremities, [Fulton 16; Wing B3934], small 4to, Oxford, Henry Hall Printer to the University, for Richard Davis, 1669.
⁂ Plate V, fig. I, shows the experiment in which Boyle sucked water up with his pump to the top of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. Part II of the Continuation appeared in Latin in 1680 and in English in 1682.
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