Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) Sammelband of Thirteen Tracts.
Including I: Of the Mechanical Origine of Heat and Cold.

London: Printed for E. Flesher for R. Davis, Bookseller in Oxford, 1675-1676.

[bound with] II: Experiments and Observations about the Mechanical Production of Tasts; III: Experiments and Observations about the Mechanical Production of Odours; IV: Of the Imperfection of the Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities; V: Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum; VI: Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origine and Production of Volatility; VII: Experimental Notes of the Mechanical Origine or Production of Fixtness; VIII: Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origine or Production of Corrosiveness and Corrosibility; IX: Of the Mechanical Causes of Chymical Precipitation; X: Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Production of Magnetism; XI: Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origine or Production of Electricity; XII: Of the Temperature of the Submarine Regions as to Heat and Cold; [and] XIII: An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities; all tracts bound in contemporary English calf, boards detached, sewing perished, 7 x 4 1/4 in.