Robertus Boyle (1 results)

Two books by Robert Boyle (1627-1691), bound into one volume; all works were translated from English to Latin. The first book contains several treatises which were published together in 1773; their original English titles run as follows: "Of the Strange Subtilty of Effluviums", "New Experiments, To Make Fire and Flame Ponderable", "Additional Experiments, about Arresting and Weighing of Igneous Corpuscles" and "A Discovery Of the Perviousness of Glass To Ponderable Parts of Flame". The second book is a translation of "New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects" (1660). Antiqua typeface; both title pages feature printer's device; other pages are decorated with large headpieces and initials with figural motifs. Provenance: The title page contains an ownership note of the Hajek Monastery near Prague ("Pro Conventu Hajecensi Anno 1731"). The front endpaper has a simple recent bookplate of Petr Vopenka (1935-2015), a Czech mathematician and philosopher. A sheet with a elaborate pen anatomical drawing of the eye (18th century?) is inserted into the copy. Both books are complete. /// Leather binding with blind embossing and coloured edges (backstrip with handwritten title and call number); hardback, [4]+12+55+[1]+21+[1]+[2]+9+[1], [12]+154+[6] pp., 8° (16.5 x 21.5 cm), cover worn and slightly rubbed, both cover and endpapers have a few tiny bookworm traces, front free endpaper missing, first title leaf backed with thick paper, title leaf's verso has small pen scribble, pages slightly uneven (due to tight binding), some pages slightly yellowed, only a few pages have any other signs of wear and age (small smudge, small tear etc.), condition: very good Book Language/s: Latin.