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BOYLE (ROBERT)
Certain Physiological Essays, Written at Distant Times, and On Several Occasions, FIRST EDITION, Henry Herringman, 1661

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BOYLE (ROBERT)

Certain Physiological Essays, Written at Distant Times, and On Several Occasions, FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornament on title, with cancel P7 (which has 2 small ink corrections), and 2-leaf cancellandum (one signed P5), without free endpapers, contemporary sheep, some loss to head of spine [Wing B3929; Duveen, p.92; Fulton 25; Garrison-Morton 665.1; Krivatsy 1666], small 4to (194 x 143mm.), Henry Herringman, 1661

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"'The Essays' gives the first clear outline of his [Boyle's] corpuscular hypothesis concerning the nature of matter, which is the guiding principle of all his later chemical studies" (Fulton).

Provenance: Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Salisbury (1643-1715), tipped-in bookplate.

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