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 ...

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

• Godbid, William, printer.
• Pitt, Moses, active 1654-1696, bookseller.
• Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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