Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2300Location: BostonDate / Time: October 30, 2005 11:00AM
Description:
(Chemistry, Early),Boyle, Robert (1627-1691),The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes; touching the Experiments Whereby Vulgar Spagirists are wont to Endeavor to Evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, Oxford: Henry Hall, 1680 [1679], second edition, contemporary calf, with eight page advertisement at rear, 8vo, (cover detached, spine lacking, few leaf corners chewed, upper marginal dampstaining). Fulton 34; Wing B4022.
Estimate $3,000-5,000