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BOYLE (ROBERT) Tracts... about the Cosmicall Qualities of Things, Cosmicall Suspitions, the Temperature of the Subterraneall Regions... to Which is Prefixt, an Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities, FIRST EDITION, Oxford, W.H., for Ric. Davis, 1670 [i.e.1671]
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BOYLE (ROBERT)
Tracts... about the Cosmicall Qualities of Things, Cosmicall Suspitions, the Temperature of the Subterraneall Regions... to Which is Prefixt, an Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities, FIRST EDITION, errata leaf [A4] bound at end, printer's woodcut device on "Three Tracts" title, neat early ink marginal note relating to oil and water on B2v, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked [Wing BB4056; Madan III, 2851; cf. Fulton 83, mentioning only the issue with 1671 on title], 8vo, Oxford, W.H., for Ric. Davis, 1670 [i.e.1671]
Footnotes
SCARCE ISSUE, with the general title 1670. STC gives this priority, but Fulton suggests it "is a curiosity of printing (due to the falling out of a figure in the date) and not a genuine earlier issue", noting a line of corrected text on p.41 of the 'Subterraneal Regions" section. Our copy has the same number of pages called for by ESTC, but signature H is without H8 (sometimes blank, sometimes a half-title).
Provenance: Henry Wallop (1762), inscription front free blank.





















