BOYLE, Robert. Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies in two essays, London: for Sam. Smith, 1684, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY to John Wentworth (1673-1720), with final blank (lower corner of B2 torn away, small burn-hole to outer margin of D8), contemporary blue calf gilt, sides panelled in gilt with floral corner pieces, spine in five compartments with red morocco lettering-piece in one, the other four with repeated tulip ornament, g.e., preserved in modern half calf box. [Fulton 149: "To a modern physiologist the Porosity of Bodies is of signal interest, for it marks the beginning of the study of osmotic pressure and of the exchange of substances through living membranes, which is at the basis of the regulation of all bodily processes"; Wing 3966]

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BOYLE, Robert. Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies in two essays, London: for Sam. Smith, 1684, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY to John Wentworth (1673-1720), with final blank (lower corner of B2 torn away, small burn-hole to outer margin of D8), contemporary blue calf gilt, sides panelled in gilt with floral corner pieces, spine in five compartments with red morocco lettering-piece in one, the other four with repeated tulip ornament, g.e., preserved in modern half calf box. [Fulton 149: "To a modern physiologist the Porosity of Bodies is of signal interest, for it marks the beginning of the study of osmotic pressure and of the exchange of substances through living membranes, which is at the basis of the regulation of all bodily processes"; Wing 3966]

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Inscribed on front free endpaper in a contemporary hand: "John Wentworth pr. 2. 1. 6.," and probably in the same hand using black ink: "Given him by ye Right Honrl. Robert Boyle," the price being struck through and altered to 0. 0. 0. 18th-century armorial bookplate of "Nath. Chomley Esq."

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John Wentworth of Elmsall near Pontefract in Yorkshire was created a baronet in 1692. His daughter Catherine married Hugh Cholmley of Whitby Abbey, and the bookplate is that of their son Nathaniel Cholmley. Boyle had close contacts with Yorkshire through his brother Richard, Lord Burlington and Cork, who lived at Skipton Castle and was for a time Lord Lieutenant of the county. He founded the "Boyle school" at Bolton Abbey, leaving it well endowed in his will, and it was very much in character for him to try and cultivate the scientific knowledge of a boy whose family he probably met at the castle. The erased price would have been about right for the binding of the book.