BOYLE, Robert. A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The I. Part, Oxford: by Henry Hall, for Richard Davis, 1669.

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BOYLE, Robert. A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The I. Part, Oxford: by Henry Hall, for Richard Davis, 1669.

Small 4° (199 x 157mm.), 8 folding engraved plates, woodcut head and tail-pieces (2 small wormholes to inner margin, occasionally affecting one letter of text, upper margin of 4 plates cropped with slight loss, margin of title very lightly dust-soiled), contemporary calf (worn, lacking endpapers).

FIRST EDITION. 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. Fulton 16; Krivatsy 1662; Wellcome II, 220; Wing B3934.