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Great Britain
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Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 152172
ESTC number: R33246
Fulton: 84
Wing number: B4058
Folger call number: B4057
Folger holdings ID: 147173
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Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
A reissue of the 1670 edition (Wing B4056), with cancel title page. This title page has a title page vignette, imprint date in arabic numerals, and "praefixt" changed to "prefixt" The words "The cosmicall qualities ... of the sea." are bracketed together on title page Signatures: [A]⁴ (-[A]3) B-E⁸ F⁴ G-H⁸; pi² A-B⁸ C⁶; A-B⁸ (±B2,3) C⁶ "Of the systematicall or cosmicall qualities of things" and "Cosmicall suspitions" each has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous. "Three tracts" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. "Of the temperature of the subterraneal regions, as to heat and cold" and "Of the temperature of the submarine regions as to heat and cold" each has separate divisional title page, pagination, and register. "Relations about the bottom of the sea" has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous Final two leaves are blank With errata on ¹[A]4. Variant 1: ¹[A]4 cancelled Variant 2: quire H is mispaginated: 61, 18, 19, 18, 23, 22, 23, 22, 23, 22, 23, 22 With vertical half-title on H8v: "Mr Boyles history of particular qualities". Variant 3: H8v blank Leaf ²C6 is blank. Variant 4: ²C5v bears the same text as ²C5r, while ²C6r bears the text usually found on ²C5v, and the page is numbered 43 Leaves ³B2,3 are cancels. Line 1 of ³B2v ends "to the lower,". Variant 5: ³B2,3 not cancelled. ³B2v line 1 ends "(the like experiment we" Copies with this title page tend to have variants 1 and 5
Item information about Folger B4057
145745. Variant 4. Cancelland t.p. present. Errata bound before cancelland t.p. and conjugate with it. Cancel t.p. cancelled by mistake, stub remains. Bookseller's ticket of H. V. Day, Dorchester. Provenance: bookplate of Charles Blackstone
Also known as
Extended title: Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle. About the cosmicall qualities of things. : Cosmical suspitions. The temperature of the submarine regions. The temperature of the subterraneall regions. The botton of the sea. To which is prefixt an introduction to the history of particular qvalities
Alternate titles: Of the temperature of the submarine regions as to heat and cold, Cosmicall suspitions, Three tracts, Relations about the bottom of the sea, Of the systematicall or cosmicall qualities of things, Of the temperature of the subterraneal regions, as to heat and cold