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BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). Hydrostatical Paradoxes, made out by New Experiments. Oxford: W. Hall for R. Davis, 1666. 8° (161 x 102mm). Title printed in red and black, 3 folding engraved plates (lacks the imprimatur leaf b1, plates with short tears and repaired, browned and stained throughout). 20th-century cloth. FIRST EDITION. Wing B3985; Fulton 72.
BOYLE, Robert. Exercitationes de atmo-sphaeris corporum consistentium. Leiden, F. Lopez, 1676. 12° (browning and spotting, more severe at the beginning). A translation of Boyle's Essays of Effluviums. Fulton 110A. [Bound with:] BOYLE, Robert. Observationes de salsedine maris. Bologna: P. Ruinetti, 1675. 12°, with the final imprimatur leaf. FIRST LATIN EDITION of Boyle's work on the saltness of the sea, albeit only a fragment. Fulton 114; Wellcome II, 223. Together 2 works in one volume, 12° (135 x 77mm.). Contemporary vellum (somewhat soiled).
With 2 histories of the Royal Society by Thomas Sprat [Wing S5032] and Thomas Thomson (the former lacking the frontispiece and the latter lacking the last leaf), both in early 20th-century half calf.
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BOYLE, Robert. Exercitationes de atmo-sphaeris corporum consistentium. Leiden, F. Lopez, 1676. 12° (browning and spotting, more severe at the beginning). A translation of Boyle's Essays of Effluviums. Fulton 110A. [Bound with:] BOYLE, Robert. Observationes de salsedine maris. Bologna: P. Ruinetti, 1675. 12°, with the final imprimatur leaf. FIRST LATIN EDITION of Boyle's work on the saltness of the sea, albeit only a fragment. Fulton 114; Wellcome II, 223. Together 2 works in one volume, 12° (135 x 77mm.). Contemporary vellum (somewhat soiled).
With 2 histories of the Royal Society by Thomas Sprat [Wing S5032] and Thomas Thomson (the former lacking the frontispiece and the latter lacking the last leaf), both in early 20th-century half calf.
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