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Boyle, Robert NEW EXPERIMENTS PHYSICO-MECHANICAL, TOUCHING THE SPRING OF THE AIR, AND ITS EFFECTS, (MADE, FOR THE MOST PART, IN A NEW PNEUMATICAL ENGINE. OXFORD: PRINTED BY H. HALL [FOR THOMAS ROBINSON], 1662 — NEW EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS TOUCHING COLD, OR, AN EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY OF COLD, BEGUN. TO WHICH ARE ADDED AN EXAMEN OF ANTIPERISTASIS, AND AN EXAMEN OF MR. HOBS’S DOCTRINE ABOUT COLD. WHEREUNTO IS ANNEXED AN ACCOUNT OF FREEZING … TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SOME PROMISCUOUS EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO THE PRECEDENT HISTORY OF COLD. LONDON: PRINTED FOR RICHARD DAVIS 1683 Two works in four parts bound in one volume, 4to (7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 184 x 146 mm). New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Three parts in one volume. Half-title with edition statement and general title within double-ruled border, separate title-pages for A Defence of the Doctrine Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and An Examen of Mr. T. Hobbes His Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris with separate registers and pagination and imprints reading: London: Printed by J.G. for Thomas Robinson 1662. Part I: Engraved folding plate; half-title soiled, short marginal tear to plate, clean 3-inch tear to H1 touching one text line. Part II: Errata on 2q3v, blank leaf 2q4 present. Part III: Engraved plate opposite k2, blank leaves m4 and o4 present, errata on o3v. New Experiments ... Touching Cold: Title within double-ruled border, engraved folding plate opposite A2v; lacking one plate, title-page age-darkened, marginal soiling in quire 2A. Modern quarter calf of raspberry pink paste-paper boards; spine faded to tan.