.jpg?w=1)
Details
HALE, Matthew, Sir (1609-1676). An Essay Touching the Gravitation, or Non-gravitation of Fluid Bodies. London: W. Godbid for W. Shrewsbury, 1673.
8° (148 x 90mm). Woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams. (Tiny loss on title affecting three letters supplied in facsimile, marginal short tear in D5.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine, red label and marbled edges (front joint splitting, some touches of restoration). Provenance: sold in 1982 at Sotheby’s for £341.
A VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this treatise on gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies in which Hale explained the supposed phenomenon that fluid bodies do not gravitate (that water at the bottom of the sea is not significantly pressed upon by water higher up). Sir Matthew Hale was an influential English barrister, judge and lawyer. ‘His interests centred on those well-known features of the natural world (magnets, plants, animals, and gravity) that seemed most difficult to understand in mechanistic terms’ (ODNB). Only one other copy recorded in ABPC/RBH.
8° (148 x 90mm). Woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams. (Tiny loss on title affecting three letters supplied in facsimile, marginal short tear in D5.) Contemporary calf, gilt spine, red label and marbled edges (front joint splitting, some touches of restoration). Provenance: sold in 1982 at Sotheby’s for £341.
A VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this treatise on gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies in which Hale explained the supposed phenomenon that fluid bodies do not gravitate (that water at the bottom of the sea is not significantly pressed upon by water higher up). Sir Matthew Hale was an influential English barrister, judge and lawyer. ‘His interests centred on those well-known features of the natural world (magnets, plants, animals, and gravity) that seemed most difficult to understand in mechanistic terms’ (ODNB). Only one other copy recorded in ABPC/RBH.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Robert Tyrwhitt