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An essay about the origine & virtues of gems : Wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, and the subjects wherein their chiefest virtues reside / By the Honourable Robert Boyle ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Boyle 540.4 B699.15 1685
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Precious stones--Early works to 1800.
- Precious stones.
- Gems--Early works to 1800.
- Gems.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Redgrave, G. R. (Gilbert Richard) 1844-1941 (autograph) (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 185, that is, 184 pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Essay about the origine and virtues of gems
- Fingerprint:
- ng.I nse- irm- aBof (3) 1672 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ..., 1672.
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴.
- Running title reads: An essay about the origine and virtues of gems.
- Title within double-ruled border.
- Error in pagination: 181 is omitted in pagination; text is continuous.
- Error in signatures: leaf E2 signed as D2.
- Errata at foot of p. [15].
- 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 of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion / By the Honourable Robert Boyle ... London : Printed by M. Flesher, for Richard Davis ..., 1685.
- 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."
- Cited in:
- ESTC, R18997
- Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 96
- Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3947
- OCLC:
- 228724183
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