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London: Printed for Samuel Smith 1684/5 [1684 / 1685 ]. 12mo. (xvi), 112, (13) pp. Modern full morocco with maroon leather title & author labels to spine. New endpapers. Paper repairs to margins. Early ink names to title-page. Text generally clean. Lacks final blank leaf. Eleven-page publisher's catalogue at rear. "Boyle proposed to study all of the physical and chemical properties of the various mineral waters, even including such properties as viscosity" (Fulton). ESTC R15100 . Very Good. Full Morocco. 1684.

London: Printed for Samuel Smith at the Prince's Arms, 1684/5. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary full leather hardback rebacked with a matching spine preserving original endpapers. Corners and extremities worn, upper and lower covers rubbed, nonetheless firm and square with strong joints and showing well. Contents sound and clean: just a minor marginal closed tear with small loss to the lower outer corner of D3, very mildly age toned throughout, and an old former owner bookplate to the pastedown. Size: 170mm x 110mm. Collation: pp. [18], 112, [14 (addendum & 6 advert leaves)], lacks final blank leaf. Thus a very good copy. An important work of chemistry with pp. 47-49 very possibly showing the first ever record of spot-analysis. References, see: Fulton 159; Wing B4023; ESTC R15100.

London, Printed for Samuel Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1684/5 , 1685. 1685 [18], 112, [16] p. with final advertisement leaves Books Printed for, and sold by Samuel Smith. Collates A8, B2 (-B2), C - K7 (K6+1, K4 = B2). Contemporary plain calf panelled with a single line and floral corner tools. Rebacked, the spine unlettered, with raised bands. The original endpapers retained, with an eighteenth century signature and shelf mark on a front endpaper. Internally clean and tight.

London: Samuel Smith, 1685. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1684/85 [i.e. 1685]. 8vo (159 x 98 mm). [18], 112, [16] pp. Typographic headpiece to first page of text, 11 pp. of publisher's advertisements bound at the end. Signatures: A8 B2 C-K8 (-B2, H3 unsigned), bound without blank leaf B2. Contemporary full calf, flat spine with gilt-lettered morocco label, boards with blind-tooling; original endpapers, red-dyed edges (rebacked preserving most of original spine, inner hinges reinforced). Text with even light browning throughout, occasional minor spotting, title-page dust-soiled and with small patch of sticking paper from flyleaf at upper left corner. Provenance: Richard Jones (inscribed on title). A very good copy, quite crisp internally. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of Boyle's treatise on the physical and chemical properties of natural mineral waters. "This is one of Boyle's unfinished 'pieces', put forth with the usual burst of apology on the… Leer más