THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST (chemist), or Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes, Touching the Experiments Whereby the Vulgar Spagirists are Wont to Endeavour to Evince Their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the True Principles of Things.

Oxford, printed for Henry Hall for Ric. Davis and B. Took, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church Yard, 1680.. TITLE CONTINUED: To which in this Edition are subjoynd divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles. TWO PARTS, EACH WITH ITS OWN TITLE PAGE, SECOND EDITION 1680, OFTHE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST (but the first to include the second part), FIRST EDITION 1680 of EXPERIMENTS AND NOTES. Small 8vo, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, pages: [20], 1-440, [28], 1-268, without the inserted 'advertisement' leaf (as often), a facsimile advert tipped in on last pastedown, full contemporary speckled panelled calf, paper label with old ink title, original endpapers. Spine worn and glued down, covers slightly pitted, paper label chipped at edges, upper hinge cracked but still attached on cords, inner paper hinges cracked, first inner paper hinge strengthened with binder's cloth, slight staining to title page, author's name in old ink to title page, another crossed out, 2 small edge repairs to blank side of title page, upper margins slightly trimmed, occasionally just shaving running titles, tiny repairs to verso outer margins of prelims up to page 10, not affecting text, worming to outer margins up to page 117 in varying degrees, narrow tracks all neatly repaired with document repair tape, non-yellowing and acid free, no loss to text, 3 letters inked in on page 33, small hole on page 47 affecting 2 letters, easily understood, lower margin neatly repaired on page 162, not near text, pale staining at beginning of text, mostly to margins, 2nd part slightly wormed to inner margins of pages 61-76 just touching a few letters but all legible, all neatly repaired with document repair tape, a few pages just slightly protruding, none are loose, occasional crease and pale brown spot, otherwise a very good copy. See: John Fulton, A Bibliography of The Hon. Robert Boyle, page 28, No. 34; Printing and the Mind of Man, page 83, No. 141, listing 1661 edition; The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books, Part 1, No. 459; Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Library, Volume 2, page 221; The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, Volume 1, page 110, No. 299; Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, Volume 1, page 121; Duveen, Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica, page 96; Dibner Library, Heralds of Science, revised edition, page 23, No. 39; ESTC R16310. More close up images of repairs on request. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.