New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) / Written by way of letter to ... Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle.

The description and use of a new, portable, table air-pump and condensing engine. With a select variety of capital experiments. Which, together with the different parts of the apparatus and glasses are illustrated by upwards of forty copper-plate figures / by Benjamin Martin.

An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.

8 unnumbered pages, 302 pages, 26 unnumbered pages : woodcut & engr. illustrations ; (4to)

Philosophia naturalis, quatuor partibus primarias corporum species, affectiones, vicissitudines, et differentias, exhibens / [Wolferdus Senguerdius].

Observations on the medical and surgical agency of the air pump : read before the British Association in 1835 / by Sir James Murray.

2 volumes, folded plates : frontispiece (portrait), folded map, folded diagrams ; (4to)

Essai de physique / par mr. Pierre van Musschenbroek ... avec une description de nouvelles sortes de machines pneumatiques, et un recueil d'expériences par Mr. J[ean] V[an] M[usschenbroek]. Traduit du hollandois par Mr. Pierre Massuet.

20 unnumbered pages, 198 pages, 5 unnumbered pages

A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The second part : wherein are contained divers experiments ... : together with a description of the engines wherein they were made / by the honourable Robert Boyle.

Description of an improved air-pump, and an account of some experiments made with it, by which its superiority above all other air-pumps is demonstrated  By John Cuthbertson. Mathematical instrument-maker. Amsterdam,.

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Philosophia naturalis, quatuor partibus primarias corporum species, affectiones, vicissitudines, et differentias, exhibens / [Wolferdus Senguerdius].

Observations on the medical and surgical agency of the air pump : read before the British Association in 1835 / by Sir James Murray.

Essai de physique / par mr. Pierre van Musschenbroek ... avec une description de nouvelles sortes de machines pneumatiques, et un recueil d'expériences par Mr. J[ean] V[an] M[usschenbroek]. Traduit du hollandois par Mr. Pierre Massuet.

A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The second part : wherein are contained divers experiments ... : together with a description of the engines wherein they were made / by the honourable Robert Boyle.

Description of an improved air-pump, and an account of some experiments made with it, by which its superiority above all other air-pumps is demonstrated By John Cuthbertson. Mathematical instrument-maker. Amsterdam,.

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Philosophia naturalis, quatuor partibus primarias corporum species, affectiones, vicissitudines, et differentias, exhibens / [Wolferdus Senguerdius].

Observations on the medical and surgical agency of the air pump : read before the British Association in 1835 / by Sir James Murray.

Essai de physique / par mr. Pierre van Musschenbroek ... avec une description de nouvelles sortes de machines pneumatiques, et un recueil d'expériences par Mr. J[ean] V[an] M[usschenbroek]. Traduit du hollandois par Mr. Pierre Massuet.

A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The second part : wherein are contained divers experiments ... : together with a description of the engines wherein they were made / by the honourable Robert Boyle.

Description of an improved air-pump, and an account of some experiments made with it, by which its superiority above all other air-pumps is demonstrated By John Cuthbertson. Mathematical instrument-maker. Amsterdam,.

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