拍品 96
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BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). An Essay about the Origine & Virtues of Gems. Wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, London: by William Godbid, to be sold by Moses Pitt, 1672. Small 8°. (Some closed wormholes, mainly marginal but occasionally affecting a few letters of text but sense recoverable). Contemporary calf (rebacked).
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BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). An Essay about the Origine & Virtues of Gems. Wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, London: by William Godbid, to be sold by Moses Pitt, 1672. Small 8°. (Some closed wormholes, mainly marginal but occasionally affecting a few letters of text but sense recoverable). Contemporary calf (rebacked).

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BOYLE, Robert (1627-91). An Essay about the Origine & Virtues of Gems. Wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, London: by William Godbid, to be sold by Moses Pitt, 1672. Small 8°. (Some closed wormholes, mainly marginal but occasionally affecting a few letters of text but sense recoverable). Contemporary calf (rebacked).

FIRST EDITION. This essay marks the beginning of the modern development in knowledge of crystal structure. "The literature [on gems] increased at an astonishing rate during the first two centuries after printing; but except for technical works on stonecutting and the setting of precious stones, the subject continued to be largely a mixture of myth and credulity until the advent of Boyle's Essay of Gems" (Fulton). Fulton 96; Krivatsy 1692; Wellcome II, 222; Wing B3947.
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