BOYLE, Robert.] Occasional reflections upon several subjects , London: by W. Wilson for Henry Herringman, 1665. 8 o (165 x 106 mm). Title in red and black. (One margin damaged, hole on 2D3 affecting some letters.) Contemporary calf (rebacked); red quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Robert Honeyman (his sale, Sotheby's London, 31 October 1978, lot 464). FIRST EDITION. Largely written when Boyle was a young squire at Stalbridge, much given to riding, walking and angling, this is his most accessible and in modern times his most reprinted work. Boyle's florid style was parodied by Swift in his Occasional Meditations on a Broomstick , and it is often stated that Reflection II of Section VI on "The Eating of Oysters" (p. 194) gave birth to Gulliver's Travels . Section IV "treats of Angling Improv'd to Spiritual uses". Fulton Boyle 64; Petit 261; Wing B-4005; W. & S. p. 40. [ With: ] BOYLE. Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Natural Philosophy . Oxford: Henry Hall for Richard Davis 1664, 1671. 2 parts in one, small 4 o. (Some light waterstaining, without author's portrait.) Modern blue quarter morocco. Second edition of volume one (the first having appeared anonymously the previous year), FIRST EDITION of volume two. The Oxford printing is Fulton's B issue. Fulton 52, 53; Wheeler 154. (2)
BOYLE, Robert.] Occasional reflections upon several subjects , London: by W. Wilson for Henry Herringman, 1665. 8 o (165 x 106 mm). Title in red and black. (One margin damaged, hole on 2D3 affecting some letters.) Contemporary calf (rebacked); red quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Robert Honeyman (his sale, Sotheby's London, 31 October 1978, lot 464). FIRST EDITION. Largely written when Boyle was a young squire at Stalbridge, much given to riding, walking and angling, this is his most accessible and in modern times his most reprinted work. Boyle's florid style was parodied by Swift in his Occasional Meditations on a Broomstick , and it is often stated that Reflection II of Section VI on "The Eating of Oysters" (p. 194) gave birth to Gulliver's Travels . Section IV "treats of Angling Improv'd to Spiritual uses". Fulton Boyle 64; Petit 261; Wing B-4005; W. & S. p. 40. [ With: ] BOYLE. Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Natural Philosophy . Oxford: Henry Hall for Richard Davis 1664, 1671. 2 parts in one, small 4 o. (Some light waterstaining, without author's portrait.) Modern blue quarter morocco. Second edition of volume one (the first having appeared anonymously the previous year), FIRST EDITION of volume two. The Oxford printing is Fulton's B issue. Fulton 52, 53; Wheeler 154. (2)
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