Shelfmark
Gb.6.13
Author
Title
An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion. : Whereunto is annexed an experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society..
Varying form of title
Running title: Of the great effects of even languid local motion
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Sold by Sam. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1690..
Physical description
2 pts. ([8], 123, [5]; [8], 76, 51-113, [1], 129-158, [2] p.) ; 18 cm. (8vo.)
Note
A reissue of the 1685 edition, with cancel t.p. and sub-title page.
Note
"An experimental discourse of some unheeded causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air" has separate dated t.p. starting new pagination and signatures.
Note
Part 2 includes "A short supplement to the essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded local motion" (p. 129-149).
Note
Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸; ²A⁴ ²B-F⁸, ³E-H⁸ ³I² ³K-L⁸ (-I7, I8, ²F4.5, ³E1, ³G⁸; L8 blank).
Note
Leaf ³E1 is cancelled by gatherings ²E-F; leaf ³G8 is cancelled by gatherings ³H-L.
Note
Title in double ruled border.
Note
Part 2 identified as Wing B3963 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 1303. Filming stops at p. 113.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R11210
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3950
Citation/references note
Fulton, J. Boyle, 165
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet, triple fillet and dot roll forming concentric frames; the outer frame and central panel have been stained to a darker brown; large blind tooled carnation ornaments at the corners of the outer frame; gold tooled arabesque roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet and title; five raised bands; red and brown sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's codes on front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ff.7.6.
Subject
Air Early works to 1800.
Subject
Medical climatology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Physics Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Smith, Samuel, active 1681 - 1703 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B47984