Boyle Robert Roberto (5 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Poor. Published in the United States of Americ. 399 + xvi pp. A perfectly acceptable study or work or research or reading copy! Solid binding. Front cover page missing. Underlining throughout text.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Quarto. (2), 64 pp. Softcover, bound in a marbled paper wrap. Light foxing; offset. Of the Reconcileableness of Specific Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy. To which is annexed a Discourse about the Advantages of the Use of Simple Medicines. (First published London, 1685). …

Quarter leather. Condition: Good. No dj. second edition. This book corresponds with Fulton 24A, with the "Genevae" imprint, and including the defence against Linus. Latin edition with bound together the original theory and Boyle's refutation of criticisms by Franciscus Linus and others. The defence contains the first formulation of Boyle's law. The defence initially appeared in 1662, this being the second edition in Latin. Bound in recent brown quarter leather with gilt spine titling and brown stipple cloth boards. The original leaves are wormed all the way through in the lower margins, not affecting text and incumbents long gone. An area around an inch square in the spine corner and opposite corner on first 90 pages is thus affected. Paper has general dusky marks and age darkening but not excessive for a work this age. Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de vi aeris elastica et ejusdem efflectibus, facta maximam partem in nova machina Pneumatica. (NEW EXPERIMENTS PHYSICO-MECHANICAL,TOUCHING The Spring of the Air,and its Effects,(Made for the most part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) Defensio doctrinae De elatere & gravitate aëris, propositae ab Honoratissimo Robert Boyle, in novis ipsus physico-mechanicis experimentis, adversus objectiones Francisci Lini. There is a single engraved folding plate bound between the two sections, and a single engraved plate bound at the rear. 12+154pp+5pp index + plate + 14+80pp+5 + plate. Size: 8vo.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Rare Oxford edition of Robert Boyle's book; recent cardboard binding with gilt title on spine; in-16°; inside very good condition; LXI, 291 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover slightly worn, given its age. Fore edges of cover bent inwards (possibly on purpose from start). Very slightly cocked. Annotation and ex libris on front paste-down. Small annotation on front end-paper. Annotations and underlining on title page. Some stains on first half-dozen leafs. Small annotation on back end-paper. Annotations on back paste-down. Occasional very slight foxing. 50+444 pages. Text on page opposing title page: "Imprimatur, William Morrice. June 20th 1664." Probably 1st Latin edition. Very rare. As a whole, book is in remarkably good condition. 16mo. 494 p. Latin.…