Boyle, Robert | A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical..., Oxford, 1669, first edition

Boyle, Robert

A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air. ... The I. Part. Oxford: Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1669

First edition of this first continuation. Plate V, figure 1 shows the experiment in which Boyle drew water up with his pump to the top of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.

4to (200 x 150 mm). Woodcut headpieces, eight folding engraved plates, longitudinal title-label at end; plates VII and VIII, along with gathering D, singed along top margin, primarily marginal dampstaining, soiling and scattered foxing, instances of early marginalia. Contemporary calf, edges stained black, pastedowns contemporary binder's waste; rebacked and recornered, rubbed, joints tender.

REFERENCES

Wing B3934; ESTC 34411; Fulton 16

PROVENANCE

Robert S. Dunham (Sotheby's New York, 11 December 1993, lot 643, part)