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BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691). Tracts ... containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions. London: for Richard Davis, 1672.
8o (172 x 106 mm). Gatherings k-x bound after P4, and (*)7-8, (**)8 bound at end. (Title-page, first few preliminaires, and final leaf with fore-margins crudely repaired, some light marginal water-damage.) Contemporary English calf (joints cracked, wear to extremities). Provenance: Smith (early signature deleted on title-page).
FIRST EDITION, first state title-page (integral and dated 1672). "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" (Fulton). Duveen, p. 94; Fulton Boyle 101; NLM/Krivatsy 1695; Wing B-4061; Norman 305.
[With:]
BOYLE, Robert. Tracts ... containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions. London: for Richard Davis, 1673. 8o (168 x 103 mm). (Tear on K6 crossing a few lines of text, some minor light browning). Contemporary English mottled calf (rebacked, some wear to edges). Provenance: "Hamiltone" (early signature and notations on front flyleaf); William B. Shaw (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with cancel title-page (dated 1673). Fulton Boyle 102; Wing B-4061; Norman 305. (2)
8o (172 x 106 mm). Gatherings k-x bound after P4, and (*)7-8, (**)8 bound at end. (Title-page, first few preliminaires, and final leaf with fore-margins crudely repaired, some light marginal water-damage.) Contemporary English calf (joints cracked, wear to extremities). Provenance: Smith (early signature deleted on title-page).
FIRST EDITION, first state title-page (integral and dated 1672). "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" (Fulton). Duveen, p. 94; Fulton Boyle 101; NLM/Krivatsy 1695; Wing B-4061; Norman 305.
[With:]
BOYLE, Robert. Tracts ... containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions. London: for Richard Davis, 1673. 8o (168 x 103 mm). (Tear on K6 crossing a few lines of text, some minor light browning). Contemporary English mottled calf (rebacked, some wear to edges). Provenance: "Hamiltone" (early signature and notations on front flyleaf); William B. Shaw (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with cancel title-page (dated 1673). Fulton Boyle 102; Wing B-4061; Norman 305. (2)