Boyle, Robert (1672)
An | Essay | About The | Origine & Virtues | Of | Gems. | Wherein are Propos’d and Historical- | ly Illustrated some Conjectures about the | Consistence of the Matter of Precious | Stones, and the Subjects wherein their | chiefest Virtues reside. [rule] By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; | Fellow of the Royal Society. | [rule] | London, | Printed by William Godbid, and are to | be sold by Moses Pitt at the White | Hart in Little Britain, 1672.
Collation: 8°: A-M8 N4; [16] 1-185 p. (i.e. 184 ; page 181 omitted)
Plates: no plates
Page size: 95 x 165 mm
Binding: contemporary calf, rebacked, with slipcase
Provenance: label "Horovitz | Joailliers | à | Genève" (ex Théodore Horovitz library) and old manuscript owner inscription on title page "Thomas Craufurd is owner of the Book"
Other editions: Latin: 1673, 1677, 1680; English: 1744
References: Hoover 161; Schuh 770; Sinkankas 863; Ward & Carozzi 289
Collection: private collection
