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BOYLE, ROBERT. Medicinal Experiments: or, A Collection of Choice and Safe Remedies . . . The First and Second Volumes [Third and Last Volume] . . . Third Edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Boyle. [24], 154 [i. e., 156]; [24], 60, [11] pages, including initial ad leaf and bookseller's 6-leaf catalogue at end. 3 volumes in 2, bound in one. 12mo, modern calf; portrait browned along edges, with owners' inscriptions and annotations on reverse, some marginal dampstaining, most noticeably toward end. London: Samuel Smith and B. Walford, 1696; J. Taylor, 1698
"Astonishing collection of nostrums" (Fulton), enlarged in successive editions from the original version published in 1688 as a pamphlet titled Some Receipts of Medicines. Fulton 182. With the bookplate of the medical historian, bibliographer, and librarian Fielding Hudson Garrison.
