Milestones of Science Books

BOYLE, Robert.

Of the high Veneration Man's Intellect owes to God; peculiarly for his Wisdom and Power.

London: Printed by M.F. for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford, 1685.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002493

8vo (169 x 102 mm). [4], 115 [1] pp. Signatures: A2, B-H8 I2. Contemporary speckled calf with simple rebacking, spine lettered in gilt (little wear to extremities), endpapers renewed. Internally little browned and dust soiled at margins, occasional very minor spotting, hole in blank lower margin of p 77/78 (paper flare). Provenance: H. Wood (bookplate to front pastedown); The library of Hugh Selbourne (small ink stamp to half-title verso). ----

Fulton 152; Wing B4009. - FIRST EDITION in English, RARE. "The loose sheets this paper consists of, having been written at somewhat distant times and places, and hastily tack'd together; so that when the latter sheets were penning the former were often not at hand: 'tis hop'd that if some few things should chance to be either misplaced or repeated, the fault will be thought venial', &c. So the 'Advertisement' reads, and a persual of the text convinces one of its honesty. There is little in its ill-digested piety to recommend either the book or its author, and one finds it difficult to recognize, in anything but the Advertisement, the hand that penned the 'Spring and Weight of the Air' and 'The Style of the Scriptures'." (Fulton p.104).

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