An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion : Whereunto is annexed an experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / By the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Flesher, Miles, active 1682-1687, printer.

Davis, Richard, active 1646-1688, publisher.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical climatology--Early works to 1800.

Air--Early works to 1800.

Air.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Pneumatics--Early works to 1800.

Pneumatics.

Medical climatology.

Penn Provenance:

Rebow[?], J. L. (autograph) (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy)

Redgrave, G. R. (Gilbert Richard) 1844-1941 (autograph) (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 123 pages, 5 unnumbered pages; 8 unnumbered pages, 76, 51-113 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 129-158 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Experimental discourse of some unheeded causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air

Fingerprint:

i-he n-s, lyto gych (3) 1685 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by M. Flesher, for Richard Davis ..., 1685.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-I⁸, ²A⁴ ²B-E⁸ ²F⁶ ³E⁸(-³E1) ³F⁸, ²G⁸(-²G8) ²H⁸ ²I², K-L⁸ (leaves I7, I8, and L8 blank).

"An experimental discourse of some unheeded causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air" (Wing B3269A) has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.

Part 2 includes "A short supplement to the essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded local motion" (p. 129-149).

A reissue of the 1685 edition. The title page is a cancel; in part 2, new quires ²E⁸ ²F⁶ cancel original ²E1; ²G8 is cancelled by new quires ²H-L.

Title within double-ruled border.

Errors in signatures: ²B1 and ²B3 signed as K1 and K3, respectively.

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown and verso of rear flyleaf that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."

Boyle Collection copy bound with: Boyle, Robert. An essay about the origine & virtues of gems / By the Honourable Robert Boyle ... London : printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ..., 1672.

Boyle Collection copy bound in full brown leather; five raised bands on spine; spine panels tooled in black with double-line fillets; brief title stamped in gilt on a black leather label in second spine panel; author stamped in gilt on a black leather label in third panel; date of imprint stamped in gilt at foot of spine; all edges speckled red.

Boyle Collection copy has an ownership inscription on recto of front flyleaf in brown ink of the bibliographer Gilbert Richard Redgrave: "Ex libris Gilbert R. Redgrave Thriftwood, Silverdale, Sydenham, London. Sept. 15th 1906." followed by an ms. list of the contents of the volume and ms. bibliographic notes, signed "G.R.R."

Boyle Collection copy has an autograph at head of t.p. in brown ink that has been partially cropped: "J. L. Rebow[?] 173[?]".

Cited in:

ESTC, R36503

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 164

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3949

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3962A

OCLC:

863561421