Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy, propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Category
Books
Date
1663
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3028518
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 127, [9]; 48, 57-417, [19] p. ; 4to. Running number: 4196. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark: "K.1.27". Manuscript inscription on leaf *1v facing title page: "Boyle " [i.e. title note and catalogue entry for anonymous works by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century[?] sprinkled calf; blind quintuple fillet border, with small blind acorn cornerpiece stamps; double blind fillets on board edges; quintuple blind fillet panels on spine. Manuscript title label on spine: "Boyle of experimental philosophy". Blue and red sprinkled edges. Marbled paper pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) Robert Sharrock (1630-1684)