Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[BOYLE, ROBERT.] De ipsa natura, sive libera in receptam naturae notionem disquisitio. Latin translation by David Abercromby. [26], 176 [i. e., 193], [5] pages, including list of publications by Boyle at end. 12mo, 140x85 mm, contemporary speckled sheep, spine darkened and chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; contents browned with occasional marginal dampstaining, scattered spotting, old inscription on title, small hole in B1 affecting a few words, small clean tear in lower outer corner of G5. London: H. Clark for John Taylor, 1687

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first edition in latin of Boyle's 1686 Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature, an exposition of his mechanical conception of nature. Keynes 171; Wing B3979.