Sales catalogue 632: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/169
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 632: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDENDA Tue Work WHICH LED TO “ BoyLe’s Law.” [362] BOYLE (Robert). 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 the Right Honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke. With folding engraved plate. ScARcE F1iRST EDITION. Small 8vo. Old calf. Oxford: H. Hall for Tho. Robinson, 1660. &8 15s Robert Boyle’s first scientific work, quickly establishing a wide reputation for its author. His experiments on the air-pump led to deductions of the highest scientific importance. He frst proved that atr had weight and it was Linus’s attack upon Boyle’s deductions in this work that brought forth (in the second edition of 1662) the generalization which carried Boyle’s name to posterity, i.e. that the volume occupied by a gas is the reciprocal of its pressure. [363] BROWNE (John). Myographia Nova sive Musculorum Omnium (In Corpore Humano hactenus repertorum) Accuratissima Descriptio, in Sex Praelectiones Dis- tributa. With engraved portrait of Browne by R. White and forty full-page anatomical plates. First LATIN EDITION. Folio. Original calf (repaired). Londini: Excudebat Joannes Redmayne, 1684. £2 10s Probably the first treatise on muscles in which the names of the muscles are printed on the figures. Some inkstains on the title. [364] GOODALL (Charles). The Royal College of Physicians of London, founded and established by Law; as appears by Letters Patents, Acts of Parliament, adjudged Cases, etc. And an Historical Account of the College’s proceedings against Empiricks and unlicensed Practisers. First EpITIon. 4to. Fine copy in contemporary red morocco, gilt panel sides and full gilt back. London: M. Flesher, for Walter Kettilby, 1684. &8 15s Contains excellent brief biographies of the most distinguished fellows of the college of past times, gives details of all the prosecutions of empirics, or uneducated practisers of physic, extracted from the college records, and is of great historical interest. PLAGUE. [365] A NEW DISCOVERY of the Nature of the Plague. And the True Cause of its Raging in European Cities. With the Remedy. Contrary to the Opinion of Dr. Meade, Dr. Browne, and others, who give for the First Causes of the Plague, in late Discourses, Air, Diet, and’ Disease... First Epirion. Small 8vo. Wrappers. London: for T. Bickerton; N.p: (1721). 10s 6d Blank margins at the end imperfect. ( 70°]
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