Experimenta et considerationes de coloribus : primum ex occasione, inter alias quasdam diatribas, ad amicum scripta, nunc vero in lucem prodire passa, ceu initium historiae experimentalis de coloribus / A Roberto Boyle ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Schagen, Gerbrandus, active approximately 1660-1688, printer.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Color--Early works to 1800.

Color.

Colors--Early works to 1800.

Colors.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 371 pages, 21 unnumbered pages : 15 cm. (12mo)

Fingerprint:

n-n- n-ui u-ra ocba (3) 1667 (A)

Place of Publication:

Amstelodami : Apud Gerbrandum Schagen, 1667.

Notes:

Signatures: *¹² A-Q¹² R⁴.

"Brevis enarratio quarundam observationum, factarum a ... Roberto Boyle de adamante in tenebris lucente": p. [341]-371, has special title page.

Title vignette; initials.

Includes index.

Error in signatures: leaf A6 signed as A2; K4 signed as C4.

Errors in pagination: p. 73, 76, 77 numbered as 83, 86, and 87, respectively.

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copy 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 bound in full parchment; four raised bands on spine; brief title in ms. in first spine panel; ms. initials "AN" at foot of spine; all edges stained blue.

Boyle Collection copy has minor worming at foot margin, resulting in some loss of signatures.

Cited in:

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 60

OCLC:

14295007