1 option
Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies : for the most part simple and easily prepared : very useful in families, and fitted for the service of country people / by the Honourable R. Boyle ... ; in three parts, containing above five hundred choice receipts.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection Boyle 540.4 B699.29
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes in 1 : portrait ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- The fourth edition: enlarged with a supplement.
- Other Title:
- Medicinal experiments
- Collection of choice and safe remedies
- Mr. Boyle's receipts
- Fingerprint:
- orr, o-of heby orCl (3) 1703 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Sam. Smith ..., and Jo. Taylor ..., 1703.
- Notes:
- Signatures: pi1 A-G¹² H⁶ I⁶, ²A¹² ²I¹² ²C-D¹².
- Pagination as follows: v. 1-2: [26], 168 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: [24], 60, [12] p.)
- Volumes 1-2 have an individual t.p. and continuous pagination; v. 3 has an individual t.p. and separate pagination; v. 1-2 has imprint: London : Printed for Sam. Smith ... ; v. 3 has imprint: London : Printed for J. Taylor ...
- Error in signatures: leaf C5 signed as D5.
- Volume 3 "has many of the earmarks of a forgery ..." (Cf. Fulton, p. 118).
- Bookseller's advertisements in v. 3 on p. [2] before t.p. and on p. [1]-[11] at end.
- Titles within double-ruled border.
- Frontispieces is an engraved portrait of the author.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."
- Boyle Collection copy left board, front free endpaper, and first front flyleaf are detached from spine and textblock.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, N10762
- Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 183
- OCLC:
- 13644242
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.