Boyle (Robert) The sceptical chymist: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spagirists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury, 2 parts in 1 vol., second edition, with advertisement f. following a2, O1 with small hole to upper margin, minor worming to first half with occasional loss to 1 or 2 letters of text, some light marginal soiling and occasional dampstaining, a few ff. lightly browned, modern morocco, [Wing B4022; PMM 141 for 1661 edition; Neville I, 208; Fulton 34; Madan 3261 & 3260], 8vo, Oxford, printed by Henry Hall for Ric. Davis, and B. Took at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1680.

⁂ Second edition, but the first to include the second part, of "the most famous book in the history of chemistry" (Neville). This copy with the rare inserted advertisement leaf, which states that the book was printed in 1679. The original edition (comprising part 1 only) was published in 1661 - PMM describes it as "one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revolution of Lavoisier in the late eighteenth century."