Considerations Touching Style Scriptures by Boyle Robert: First Edition (2 results)

Leather. Condition: Good Only. First edition. The very scarce first edition of Robert Boyle's defence of the plain and unadorned language of the Bible against critics of its simple style. The very scarce first edition of this work. A theological treatise by Robert Boyle examining the language and literary character of the Bible. ESTC R210150 [1], A8, a5, A2-8, B-R8. Collated, complete. The final leaf, R8, is a blank, as called for. The work argues that the apparent simplicity, obscurities, and stylistic peculiarities of the biblical text should be understood in light of its original languages, historical context, and intended audience. In a full calf binding. Front board detached but present. Rear joint starting, but board is firmly held. Minor losses of calf to back strip head and tail. Front blanks tenderly attached to front pastedown. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd light handling mark. Good Only. None (illustrator). book.…

Full Leather Hard Back. Condition: Fair/good. First Edition. Some Motive Title Page + blank + xvi + 158 pages + Some Considerations Title Page + blank + xxxvii + blank + 254 pages. Antique full leather binding, fair/good, some splitting of spine, but holding OK. Contents mostly very good, clean & tight, lacks front blank endpage, inside front old inscription that it contains 2 works by Boyle over some older mostly pencil notes just visible, some darkening around edges to Some Motive Title Page due to binding. Only noticed one other ink inscription "No 30" to base of Some Considerations Title Page, there is some odd minimal marks, looks like from text ink to finger to page, inside rear cover is glued in what looks like part of an 1660's or earlier Latin page. Robert Boyle 1627 1691 was an amazing person, son of the 1st Earl of Cork, Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist physicist, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant. He returned to England from Europe in mid-1644 with a keen interest in scientific research.His father, Lord Cork, had died the previous year and had left him the manor of Stalbridge in Dorset as well as substantial estates. But later moved to Oxford. Boyle incorporated his scientific interests into his theology, believing that natural philosophy could provide powerful evidence for the existence God. He was also had a monogenist perspective about race/origin. He was a pioneer studying races, and he believed that all human beings, no matter how diverse their physical differences, came from the same source He was also a founder of the Royal Society. At time of listing, Both titles were the earliest copies listed for sale. And therefore both very rare. Size: 11 x 17cm Approx. …