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Lot 237

BOYLE (ROBERT)
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymo-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes, Touching the Experiments whereby Vulgar Spagirists are Wont to Endeavour to Evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, to be the True Principles of Things... Divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles, 2 parts in 1 vol., Oxford, Henry Hall for R. Davis and B. Took, 1680

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BOYLE (ROBERT)

The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymo-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes, Touching the Experiments whereby Vulgar Spagirists are Wont to Endeavour to Evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, to be the True Principles of Things... Divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles, 2 parts in 1 vol., second edition, without the inserted 'advertisement' leaf (as often), contemporary calf, gilt red morocco spine label, upper joint slightly weakened [Wing B4022; Fulton 34; Madan 3261], 8vo (170 x 110mm.), Oxford, Henry Hall for R. Davis and B. Took, 1680

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The second edition, with a second part making its first appearance in print.

Provenance: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792), armorial bookplate and ink library note "Mountstuart K.5.10".

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