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BOYLE (ROBERT)
Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, 2 parts in one vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1663

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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[BOYLE (ROBERT)]

Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title, errata leaf, occasional light soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine chipped at head [Wing B4029; Fulton 50; Madan III, 2634], 4to (200 x 155mm.), Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1663

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"Of special importance for its comments on medicine.... It is curious that the first edition of the book should have been anonymous" (Fulton).

Provenance: George Story of Trinity College, Cambridge, ownership inscriptions dated 1726 on flyleaf, half-title, title-page and at various points in text. Story was a subscriber to Pemberton's 1728 View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy.

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