The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; . abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine. The whole illustrated with notes, containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time. In three volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
Category
Books
Date
1738
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3142747
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v.,plates . port.. . 4to.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century mantle Harpur armorial bookplate, with italtic inscription: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart" [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; blind fillet border and double panel; five raised bands; (missing) spine label.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)