PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medecine / the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time by Peter Shaw.

folding plates/pullouts[1 +19 +1] 3 VOLUMES quarto blind tooled panelled calf on 5 raised bands [not quite matching/lacking 2 title labels of vol II and III, Volume I has been rebacked with a new spine label & corners underlaid.] Vol. I title page +[2p=dedication and inscritpion] +xxxi [=Preface & preliminaries] +[1p=blank] +xxxiii -xliii [=content] + 730pp vol.II xx[=title +dedication +content] +726pp Vol.III titlepage + xv [=content] +[1p=blank] +756pp [includes index] There are several misnumbering but catchword and signatures are correct however there are 5 leaves in Facimile. The endpapers of vol.I have pencil notes and computation,and ink name, Thomas (possibly contemporary), the pastedown of Vol. II & III have a coat of arm bookplate of Revd. John Rocke. Dedication in Vol 1 from Shaw to Lord Burlington (1694-1753), who helped construct numerous grand houses across the UK including Northwick Park. Volume II dedication to the Earl of Orrery (1674-1731) a patron of the sciences. The margin of one leaf has a burn mark to the corner affecting only one letter of the catchword. There are a few marginal worm tracks to the margins of the text in vol.1 but in all the volumes are clean, crisp and unmarked. Text is unmarked across all volumes. *Boyle regarded today as the founder of modern chemistry, alonside Newton as a pioneer of the experimental scientific method. As member of the Royal Society he was elected president but declined the honor,and is remembered for the law named after him of volume vs.pressure of gases. Investigation and experiments were to be his way of studying science and he was not one to build hypotheses until proof was obtained. This collection of the many papers and experiments he wrote up are here brought up to date with later findings to produce the best and most complete compilation of his work. Dr Peter Shaw was a London based physician who was appointed physician extraordinary to King George II in 1753. All Vol`s printed in London. 3 volumes. …