Tracts: containing I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air ; with an appendix touching celestial magnets, and some other particulars. II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo. III. A discourse of the cause of attraction by suction. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.

Tracts: containing I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air ; with an appendix touching celestial magnets, and some other particulars. II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo. III. A discourse of the cause of attraction by suction. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.

Tracts about the hidden qualities of the air

London : Printed by W[illiam]. G[odbid]. and are to be sold by M. Pitt, at the Angel against the Little North Door of St. Paul's Church, 1674.

[8], 71, [1]; [2], 25, [1]; [2], 13, [1]; [10], 94; [6], 67, [1]; [6], 17, [1] p. ; (8vo)

Printer's name from Wing CD.

"Observations about the grovvth of metals in their ore exposed to the air", "Some additional experiments relating to the suspicions about the hidden qualities of the air", "Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's problemata de vacuo", "Of the cause of attraction by suction", and "New experiments about the preservation of bodies in vacuo Boyliano"; each have separate pagination, register, and title page, with "printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, ... 1674" in imprint.

General title page cancelled and replaced with bifolium: blank leaf and cancel title page.

"Of the cause of attraction by suction" has cancel title page on leaf A2.

Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E3 a fragment with general title page only.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), B4054
Fulton, J. Boyle, 119
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R17545

Observations about the grovvth of metals in their ore exposed to the air.
Some additional experiments relating to the suspicions about the hidden qualities of the air.
Of the cause of attraction by suction.
Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's problemata de vacuo.
New experiments about the preservation of bodies in vacuo Boyliano.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

B4054

152022. 'New experiments' bound as first item with its [4] p. preface bound before its divisional t.p. Cancellands from "Of the cause of attraction by suction" present. Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps copy, bought from William H. Robinson Ltd.