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
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3194254
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., plates : ill. ; 4to. Bookseller's ink note on v.1 endpaper. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]; pasted over previous owner's plate; top corner cut from fly leaf. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gold fillet border; blind tooled panel; gold ruled spine; five raised bands; spine labels: Shaw's Abridgmt ... [two missing].
Makers and roles
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)