Boyle,R.

Lot 57
15.12.2022 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 57 | Boyle,R.
The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In Five Volumes. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author. 5 Bde. London, Millar, 1744. Folio. Titel in Rot und Schwarz, 1 gestoch. Portrait-Frontispiz, 5 gestoch. ident. TVignetten u. insg. 15 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. 2 Bl., VIII, 152 S. 2 Bl., 565 S. 2 Bl., 652. 2 Bl., 556 S. 2 Bl., 736 S., 43 Bl. (Index). Ldrbde. d. Zt. mit rot. Rschild. (Berieben, bestoßen, Kapitale stellenw. etw. läd., alle Gelenke angebrochen, 2 Bände mit Leinenstreifen laienhaft Gelenke überklebt, Bd. 5 Vorderdeckel lose). - Blake 62. Ferguson I, 122. DSB II, 382. Erste vollständige Ausgabe. - "During Robert Boyle's lifetime there was a great demand for his writing not only in England but on the Continent, this is no doubt reflecting the dramatic upsurge of interest in the sciences and particularly in those having a bearing on biology and medicine. But this work must have been equally in demand by physical scientists ..." (Fulton, 143). - "The first complete edition of his writings was published by Birch in 1744 ... It included his posthumous remains and correspondence, with a life of the author founded on materials collected with abortive biographical designs by Burnet and Wotton, and embracing Boyle's unfinished narrative of his early years entitled 'An account of Philatretus during his Minority'" (DNB II, 1030). - Jew. mit Wappenexlibris. - 5 vols. With engr. portrait frontispiece, 5 ident. engr title vignettes, 15 fold. copperplates. Contemp. leather with gilt-stamped and labelled spine, gilt stamped fillets and cover edges (rubbed, end of spines and bindings occ. chafed, front joints cracking). - Each vol. with engr. amorial bookplate. (1595).
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