[BOYLE, Robert (1627-91)] Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: by Hen. Hall for Ric. Davis, 1663, 2 parts in one volume, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, with final errata leaf (label-title A1a misbound before half title to part part I, small burn-holes in 2n1 and 2o1, small oval woodcut portrait laid down on verso of half title), contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, sides with gilt panels and floral corner ornaments, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, one lettered, the remainder plain (extremities rubbed, slightly blackened on spine and at edges of covers), g.e. [Fulton 50: "Part I is an attempt to justify the activities of the virtuoso experimentalists in the eyes of their contemporaries. Part II, written later, is of interest to present-day biologists for its many allusions to physiology"; Wing 4029]

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[BOYLE, Robert (1627-91)] Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: by Hen. Hall for Ric. Davis, 1663, 2 parts in one volume, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, with final errata leaf (label-title A1a misbound before half title to part part I, small burn-holes in 2n1 and 2o1, small oval woodcut portrait laid down on verso of half title), contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, sides with gilt panels and floral corner ornaments, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, one lettered, the remainder plain (extremities rubbed, slightly blackened on spine and at edges of covers), g.e. [Fulton 50: "Part I is an attempt to justify the activities of the virtuoso experimentalists in the eyes of their contemporaries. Part II, written later, is of interest to present-day biologists for its many allusions to physiology"; Wing 4029]

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Bookplate removed; "of Pickering," early 19th-century note to front free endpaper; Pickering & Chatto [19]20 5/5/-, pencil note on front endpaper; Philip Bliss's copy, pencil note to the same.