General heads for the natural history of a country, great or small : drawn out for the use of travellers and navigators / Imparted by the late Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society ; Ordered to be published in his life-time, at the request of some curious persons ; To which is added, other directions for navigators, etc. with particular observations of the most noted countries in the world: by another hand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Scientific expeditions--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Scientific expeditions.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

Cox, Charles F. (Charles Finney), 1846-1912 (bookplate) (Boyle Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 138 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

ass; e-ch s.he ShDe (3) 1692 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John Taylor ... and S. Holford ..., 1692.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]² B-F¹² G¹⁰.

Title within double-ruled border.

Includes index.

With a final advertisement leaf, "A catalogue of books printed for John Taylor at the Ship in S. Paul's church-yard."

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."

Boyle Collection copy bound in full brown leather; boards tooled in blind; five raised bands on spine; brief title stamped in gilt on a red leather label in second spine panel; author stamped in gilt on a red leather label in fourth spine panel; date of imprint stamped in gilt at foot of spine; all edges speckled red.

Boyle Collection copy has the book label of Charles Finney Cox ("Charles F. Cox New York") on front pastedown.

Cited in:

ESTC, R16299

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 195

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3980

OCLC:

228723449