Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
The Philosophical Works.

London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, 1738.

Three large quarto volumes, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author opposite title of the first volume, illustrated with fifteen plates over the set (single leaf plates in first and third volume, thirteen folding plates in volume two); lacking signature Hhhh in second volume (four text leaves not removed, most likely omitted in the process of gathering or binding and never included in this copy); bound in uniform contemporary English calf, spines with labels and volume numbers, 9 1/4 x 7 in. (3)

ESTC N19966.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.