Bibliotheca Hookiana - Record details
| Language and size: | English Books in Octavo |
| Lot number: | 220 |
| Page number: | 49 |
| Author: | Boyle, Robert |
| Title: | Of the Mechanical Origine of Qualities |
| Publication place: | [ ] |
| Publication date: | 1675 |
| Price fetched: | 0.2.0 |
| Location: | Smithsonian Special Collections Dibner Library call number Q155 .B79 1675 |
| Provenance: | Lee, William, and other familiy members (17th-19th centuries, bookplates); 14 Dec. 1878 inscription from Parkyn, Ernest Albert (b. 1857) to Joh. Hodgkin (fl. 1878); Dibner, Bern (1897-1988) |
| Provenance references: | Mandelbrote, 'Sloane's Purchases' (2009), p. 138; Gaskell, 'From Collector' (2001), pp. 14-15; catalogue of the Smithsonian Libraries. |
| Annotations: | The front paste-down endpaper, etc., includes notes in Hooke's hand. |
| Other notes: | See figs. 17, 18, and 19 in the editors' Introduction. Hooke's copy of the book is available online via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Title in the Smithsonian Libraries catalogue: Experiments, notes, &c., about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities: among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum. The attached manuscript leaves contain simple notes resembling an index or list of contents. |
| database ID: | auct_BH_2324 |