Details
BOYLE, Robert. Tracts ... containing new experiments touching the relation betwixt flame and air. London: for Richard Davis, 1672. 8°. With gatherings k-x correctly bound between **8 and K2 (lacking blanks A1, x7 and x8, evenly browned throughout, lightly spotted). Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, lacking endpapers). Provenance: John Crerar Library, Chicago (bookplate, stamps on pastedown, name stamped in gilt on front cover, and library number on spine).
FIRST EDITION. Fulton notes that "important observations on respiration are scattered through nearly all of Boyle's works. He was impressed with the idea that life was a slow-burning flame, and he often pointed out the analogy between living processes and the burning of a candle. It was in the present tract, however, that he gave special attention to the theme, insisting upon the term flamma vitalis. In many places he approached the modern theory of oxidation." This is an unusual copy in having gatherings k-x correctly bound and it has no library markings in the text. Duveen p.94; Fulton 101; Norman 305; Wing B4061.
FIRST EDITION. Fulton notes that "important observations on respiration are scattered through nearly all of Boyle's works. He was impressed with the idea that life was a slow-burning flame, and he often pointed out the analogy between living processes and the burning of a candle. It was in the present tract, however, that he gave special attention to the theme, insisting upon the term flamma vitalis. In many places he approached the modern theory of oxidation." This is an unusual copy in having gatherings k-x correctly bound and it has no library markings in the text. Duveen p.94; Fulton 101; Norman 305; Wing B4061.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.