Sales catalogue 666: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/112

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$535 539 540 543 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. BOYLE (Hon. Robert; F.R.S.) MEMOIRS for the NATURAL History of HUMANE BLOOD, especially the Sprrir of that Liquor, first edition, 12mo. FINE COPY IN OLD ENGLISH RED MOROCCO EXTRA, finely tooled sides and back, g. ¢., with auto. ‘ORRERY, bought at Bath, 1731,’ 17s 6d 1684 Containing a number of interesting chemical experiments with human blood. ______ New EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS touching COLD, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun. To which are added, an Examen of Antiperistasis, and of Hobs’s Doctrine about Cold ; with an Account of Freezing, by C[HRISTOPHER] MERRET, M.D., F.R.S., first edition, with 2 copperplates, thick sm. 8vo, new boards (RARE), £1. 1s 1665 ‘Containing a refutation of the vulgar doctrine of ‘antiperistasis’ (in full credit with Bacon) and of Hobbes’s theory of cold.’—D. N. B. It also comprises the first account of FREEZING MIXTURES, ____ New EXPERIMENTS PHYSICO-MECHANICALL, touching the SPRING of the ATR, and its Effects (made, for the most part, ina NEW PNEUMATICAL ENGINE), first edition, 12mo. old calf (plate wanting, title mended, and some WU. wormed), 12s 6d Oxford, H. Hall, 1660 “ ANOTHER Copy, containing the folding plate (but one leaf very slightly defective) : also, H[ooke] (Kf{obert, F.R.S.]) ATTEMPT for the EXPLICATION of the PHENOMENA, observable in an Experiment published by R. B., in the XX XV. EXPERIMENT of his Epistolical Discourse touch- ing the AIRE, in Confirmation of a former Conjecture, first edition, with folding plate—2 vols. sm. 8vo. in 1, largeand sound copy in mottled calf (VERY RARE), £1. lls 6d a5., 1660-1 Boyleana’), ‘ presenting all the essential qualities of the modern air-pump. By amultitude of experiments performed with it, Boyle vividly illustrated the effects (at that time very imperfectly recognised) of the elasticity, compressibility, and weight of the air; investigated its function in respiration, combustion, and conveyance of sound, and exploded the obscure notion of a fuga vacui.’—Agnes M. Clerke. The second tract, treating of capillary attraction, won the attention of the Royal Society. Its author, Robert Hooke, was then assistant to Boyle, and aided him materially in the construction of his air-pump. ris : ¢ ANOTHER Copy of the ‘New EXPERIMENTS’, first edition, with folding plate, Oxford, 1660: EXPERIMENTS and CONSIDERATIONS about the POROSITY of Bopies, first edition, ’84— 2 vols. sm. 8vo. in 1, large sound copies in contemporary calf, £1. 15s ib., 1660-84 Seconp EDITION, whereunto is added a DEFENCE of the Author’s Explication of the Experiments, against the OBJECTIONS of FRANCISCUS LINUs, and THOMAS HosBES, folding plate, er. 4to. old calf (VERY RARE), £1. 15s ab., 1662 This edition is of great importance, as first containing what is now known as Boyle’s Law. ‘The ‘ Defence against Linus ’ contained experimental proof of the proportional relation between elasticity and pressure, still known as Boyle’s Law. This approximately true principle, although loosely demonstrated, was at once generalised and accepted, and was con- firmed by Marrorre [under whose name it is generally known on the Continent] in 1676.’—Agnes M. Clerke. ______'TyHirp EDITION, with the DEFENCE against the Objections of FRANCISCUS LINUS and Tuomas Hopps, er. 4to., new Af. brown calf extra (title stamped, 2 holes in ua, and plate apparently missing), 15s ' 1682 ~*_ CONTINUATION of NEw EXPERIMENTS, PHYSICO-MECHANICAL, touching the SPRING and WEIGHT of the Arr, and their Effects, I. Part, with a short DiscoursE of the ATMOSPHERES of CONSISTENT BODIES, first edition, with 8 folding plates on copper, cr. 4to. contemporary calf (title and a few Ul. stained, otherwise a sound and large copy); RARE, 16s 6d Oxford, H. Hall, 1669 Specially valuable for giving a description of his air-pump as improved by Ropert Hooke, the author’s assistant, — spoken of as the ‘second Engine’ in this work. ee ‘ ANOTHER Copy, with the Second Part, containing divers EXPERIMENTS made both in COMPRESSED and also in FACTITIOUS AIR, about Fire, Animals, etc., with DESCRIPTION of the ENGINES wherein they were made, 5 copperplates—2 vols. cr. 4to. in 1, first editions; new hf. brown calf gilt (FINE LARGE COPIES) ; RARE, £1. 15s Oxford, 1669—London, ’82 The illustrations of the second part contain ‘an Engine, with a double Tube for the exhausting of the Air; a Mercurial Gage; an Engine to compress the Air; how factitious Air may be transmitted out of one Receiver into another; an Instrument by which Air may be filtrated through Water, condensed, and rarefied ; description of a Wind-Gun; and an Instrument to distill in vacuo.’ . Nova EXPERIMENTA Puysico-MECHANICA de VI AERIS ELASTICA, et ejusdem Effectibus, facta maximam partem in Nova Macuina PNEUMATICA ; first Latin edition (wanting plate), Oxonie, H. Hall,’61: ATTEMPT for the EXPLICATION of the PHANOMENA, observable in an Experiment published by R. B., in Confirmation of a former Conjecture made by R[obert] H(ooke, F.R.S.], first edition, with plate, S. Thomson, ’°61—2 vols. 12mo. in 1, OLD ENGLISH RED MOROCCO EXTRA, finely tooled back and sides, g. e. (in fine condition), 17s 6d 1661 With armorial book-plate of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery, and auto. ‘OrRERY. Bought at Bath 1731.’ ____ OpsERVATIONS about the GrowTH of METALS in their ORE exposed to the AIR, first edition, 12mo. (pp. 25), sewn, 4s 1674 ____ The ORIGINE of FORMES and QUALITIES (according to the Corpuscular Philosophy), ilus- trated by Considerations and Experiments (written formerly by way of Notes upon an Essay about Nitre), first edition, 12mo. FINE Copy i old calf (RARE), Cl5s Oxford, 1666 ‘Expounding his principles of a ‘ mechanical philosophy.’ Founded on the old atomic hypothesis, these accord in the main with the views of many recent physicists. They postulate one universal kind of matter, admit in the construction of the visible world only moving atoms, and derive diversity of substance from their various modes of grouping and inanner of movement.’ —-D. N. LB, [_——] Prormia. Essay, wherein, with some considerations touching EXPERIMENTAL ESssAYs in GENERAL, is interwoven such an Introduction to all those written by the Author, as is necessary to be perus’d for the better understanding of them, sm. 4to. (pp. 40), sewn, 3s 6d [1669] _ SUSPICIONS about some HIDDEN QUALITIES in the AIR (wanting title): SOME ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS relating thereto—2 vols. 12mo. sewn, 6s 6d 1674 Containing an investigation of the properties of the air, physically and chemically, and including a chapter on ‘ Celestial and Aerial Magnets.’ 7 wee$

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