Beschreibung:

BOYLE, ROBERT The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle... London: A. Millar, 1744. First complete edition of the collected works (collections had appeared in his lifetime, but these were not definitive). Five volumes, brown calf of the period, sprinkled edges. 14 x 9 inches (36 x 23 cm); engraved frontispiece in the first volume, [2], viii, 152, 583, [1] pp., folding plate; [2], 565, [1] pp., 5 folding plates; [4], 652, 5 folding plates; [4], 556, 3 folding plates; [4], 736, folding plate, 42 ff. index. (i.e. 15 folding plates in total, as issued). All joints cracked, holding on cords, bindings otherwise rubbed, worn, several endpapers detached or missing but internally, despite some pale toning to the text, a clean set, the folding plates in sound condition. The copy of the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Brooke (of Warwick), with his bookplates in each volume. The title page vignettes are by Hubert Gravelot, and the fine portrait is after Johann Kerseboom Fulton 240. C