BOYLE (ROBERT)
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, 2 titles printed in red and black (the second additional, bound after D1), R2 a cancel, without final blank, A2-3 with small paper flaw at head just touching headline, second title with author's name added in ink and with small tear repaired with old paper on blank verso, short tear touching 2 lines of D2, collector's mark touching 2 letters on p.51, but generally very clean and crisp, contemporary sheep, some refurbishment to spine, leaves from a Latin edition of Aristotle used as free endpapers, fragments (160 x 90mm.) of a fourteenth century vellum manuscript as paste-downs, preserved in modern solander box [Wing B4021; Dibner 39; Fulton 33; Norman 299; PMM 141], 8vo (167 x 99mm.), J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661