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A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects : The I. part. Written by way of letter, to the Right Honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan. Whereto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies / By the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Boyle 540.4 B699.5 1669 copy 2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Boyle QC161 .B79 1682
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Contributor:
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Air--Early works to 1800.
Air.
Air-pumps--Early works to 1800.
Air-pumps.
Penn Provenance:
Molynoux, Thomas (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy 2)
I. R. (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy 2)
Physical Description:
20 unnumbered pages, 198 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 8 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Other Title:
Continvation of nevv experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and vveight of the air, and their effects
Fingerprint:
ese- s,u- nkon Bosh (3) 1669 (A)
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Printed by H. Hall ... for R. Davis, in the year 1669.
Notes:
Head- and tail-pieces; printed marginal notes.
"Errata": p. [19] of 1st group.
With 5 final contents leaves.
The last leaf bears a vertical half-title: Mr Boyle's continuation of experiments of the air.
Local Notes:
Boyle Collection copy 1 imperfect: three leaves after the preface ("Some advertisements touching the engine itself," etc.) and the last six leaves (contents and label-title) wanting.
Boyle Collection copy 2 is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."
Boyle Collection copy 2 has the ownership inscription "Tho. Molynoux" in brown ink at head of p. 1; ms. monogram initials "I. R."[?] in brown ink at head of t.p.
Boyle Collection copy 2 bound in full brown mottled leather; four raised bands on spine; brief title stamped in gilt in second spine panel; date of imprint stamped in gilt at foot of spine; blind-tooled cover edges; all edges speckled red.
Cited in:
ESTC, R34411
Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 16
Wing (2nd ed.), B3934
OCLC:
3835467

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