Boyle, Robert (1673)

 
Boyle, Robert (1673)

Boyle, Robert (1673)

Specimen | De | Gemmarum | Origine | & | Virtutibus. | In quo proponuntur & historicè illustran- | tur quædam conjecturæ circa con- | sistentiam materiæ Lapidum Præ- | tiosorum, & subjecta, in quibus eo- | rum præcipuæ virtutes consistunt. | Primum Anglicè conscriptum | Authore | Roberto Boyle, Armig. | Societatis Regiæ Socio. | Nunc Latinè, interprete C.S. | [ornament] | Hamburgi, | Apud Gothofredum Schultz. | Prostant & Amsterodami, | Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge. | [rule] | M.DC.LXXIII.
Title in red and black

Collation: 12°: )(10 A-H12 I6 K1; [20] 1-206 p.

Page size: 124  x 72 mm

Binding: three works bound together in full vellum boards, yapped edges, with manuscript title on spine

Provenance: no marks of provenance

Other editions: English: 1672; Latin: 1673, 1677, 1680

References: Hoover 392, Schuh 773, Sinkankas 2831, Ward & Carozzi 1033

Note: the present copy is bound together with two other works by Robert Boyle; "Tractatus de cosmicis rerum qualitatibus ... Accedit denique Tractatus de absoluta quiete in corporibus", Amsterdam, Johann Jannson a Waesberge, and Hamburg, Gothfried Schulz, 1671; "Tractatus ... Ubi 1. Mira aeris ... Juxta exemplar impressum" London, Henry Herringman, 1671

Collection: private collection

Boyle, Robert (1673)