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