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BOYLE (ROBERT) Medicina hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica. Shewing, How by the Weight that Divers Bodies, Us'd in Physick, Have in Water; one may Discover Whether they be Genuine or Adulterate. To which is Subjoyn'd, a Previous Hydrostatical Way of Estimating Ores, first edition, Samuel Smith, 1690
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BOYLE (ROBERT)
Medicina hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica. Shewing, How by the Weight that Divers Bodies, Us'd in Physick, Have in Water; one may Discover Whether they be Genuine or Adulterate. To which is Subjoyn'd, a Previous Hydrostatical Way of Estimating Ores, first edition, half-title, folding engraved frontispiece, with the 16-page 'Catalogue of the Philosophical Books and Tracts' at end, paper flaw and some ink staining to N3-4, eighteenth century panelled sheep, spine with morocco label ('Tracts by Boyle/16'), spine rubbed [Fulton 189; Wing B3928A], 8vo (162 x 100mm.), Samuel Smith, 1690
Footnotes
A very nice copy of the first edition of "the first tract in English upon the determination of specific gravity... The book is not common and has not been reprinted except for the Geneva edition" (Fulton).
Provenance: Mountstuart bookplate of the Earls of Bute.
























