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A Continuation of New Experiments
Robert Boyle
1669
Henry Hall : Oxford
8" by 6"
[22], 1-198, [12], [10]pp
SUMMARY
A scarce, first edition copy of Robert Boyle’s first continuation of his important work on air and gasses.
First Edition
Overall Condition: Good Only
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
A scarce, first edition copy of Robert Boyle’s first continuation of his important work.
Illustrated, with seven of eight plates. Lacking plate III. The plates depict the single barrelled air-pump Boyle and Hooke devised. Plate V demonstrates Boyle’s experiment of sucking water using his pump to the top of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
Boyle worked hard to devise improvements on Otto von Guericke’s air pump or vacuum chamber. His end result was the ‘machina Boyleana’ or ‘Pneumatical Engine’ which was finished in 1659. His account of the work was in the first publication ‘New Experiments Physico-Mechanical’. This is a continuation from that original work.
This continuation was written, as Boyle states to the preface, because he had ‘promis’d a Second part of it, or a large Appendix to it…’
ESTC reference no. R34411.
CONDITION
Disbound. Externally, sound, with minor ships to the extremities. Internally, held by one cord only at page 6. Otherwise, the work is firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional ink inscriptions to the margins. Tidemarks to the base of all pages, heaviest to the first and last few pages, in addition to plates VI and VII most heavily. Lacking plate III. Occasional light scattered spots.
Overall Condition: Good Only
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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