Roberti Boyle, nobilissimi Angli, et Societatis Regiae dignissimi socii, Opera varia, quorum posthac exstat catalogus. Cum indicibus necessariis & multis figuris aeneis.

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4to (212 x 170 mm.), five parts in one volume: [8] preliminary pages; [part I] Experimenta et considerationes de coloribibus ([20], 168, [8] pages); [part II] Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de VI aëris elastica et eiusdem effectibus ([12], 154, [6] pages and [1] engraved plate (folded)); [part III] Defensio doctrinae de elatere et gravitate aeris ([14], 80, [6] pages, and [1] engraved plate (folded) attached to p. 38, and wood-cut table on p. 49); [part IV] Tractatus scripti à domino Roberto Boyle ([4], 19, [1] pages); and [part V] Paradoxa hydrostatica novis experimentis (maximam partem physicis ac facilibus) evicta ([16], 72 pages, [3] engraved plates (folded), and wood-cut illustration on p. 35). Bound in contemporary full limp vellum, ink titling and numbering on spine, modern annotations in pencil and ink on front flyleaf (browning throughout, minor damp staining on approximately 30 pages at beginning, and minor wormholes, more severe on outer margins of final 40 pages but not affecting text). PROVENANCE: bookplate of Portuguese poet and painter Joaquim Pessoa (born 1948), and 20th century bookseller s label of Livraria Olisipo in Lisbon, Portugal. FIRST EDITION OF COLLECTED WORKS IN LATIN, CONTAINING FIVE WORKS ORIGINALLY ALSO ISSUED SEPARATELY. Editions of Boyle s Opera Varia often comprise several works in multiple volumes. Fulton indicates that Opera Varia contains nine works; this volume includes three of those works ("Nova experimenta physico-mechanica" plus "Defensio doctrinae," "Paradoxa hydrostatica," and "Experimenta et considerationes de coloribus"), as well as "Tractatus scripti à domino Roberto Boyle," which is not included in Fulton s list. De Tournes issued new editions of Opera Varia in 1680 and again in 1687. REFERENCES: J.F. Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle (1932), no. 246. N° de ref. del artículo 72JFP051

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