LOCKE, John (1632-1704), his copy]. BOYLE, Robert. A volume of three works from the library of John Locke. 8° (187 x 122 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, lettered "Boyle" by Locke in manuscript on spine, UNCUT (some light soiling and cockling); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : John Locke (signature and annotations, see below); Sir Thomas Phillipps (sold Sotheby’s London, 30 June 1976, lot 4426); anonymous consignor, sold Sotheby’s London, 29 November 1982, lot 124. COMPRISING
LOCKE, John (1632-1704), his copy]. BOYLE, Robert. A volume of three works from the library of John Locke. 8° (187 x 122 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, lettered "Boyle" by Locke in manuscript on spine, UNCUT (some light soiling and cockling); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : John Locke (signature and annotations, see below); Sir Thomas Phillipps (sold Sotheby’s London, 30 June 1976, lot 4426); anonymous consignor, sold Sotheby’s London, 29 November 1982, lot 124. COMPRISING : Tracts Written By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions . London: Richard Davis 1672. With blank A1 and terminal blanks xx7-8. (Marginal repaired tear on o2.) FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE . Wing B-4060; Fulton 101. Tracts Consisting of Observations About the Saltness of the Sea . London: E. Flesher for R. Davis, 1674. 8°. With blank A1. (Quire N misbound after preliminaries, rust-hole on G8 affecting two letters in headline, marginal tears on L1 and M3.) FIRST EDITION . Wing B-4053; Fulton 113. [ Tracts: Containing I. Suspicions about some Hidden Qualities of the Air . London: W.G…. sold by M. Pitt, 1674]. 8°. With both titles for the 'Cause of Attraction by Suction' and Advertisement to the Binder leaf. (General title cancelled and not replaced, repaired marginal tear on B4.) FIRST EDITION . Wing B-4054; Fulton 119. A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY, CONNECTING TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT 17TH-CENTURY ENGLISH THINKERS JOHN LOCKE'S COPY , with his signature and check letters inside the front cover, symbol at foot of first title, rare paraph on the last page (located in only 36 of Locke's books, its secret meaning unrevealed) and title and press-mark on the spine. WITH MANUSCRIPT SUBJECT AND PAGE LISTS by Locke, the first 1 1/4 pages, ca 70 words, on a leaf tipped to the front free endpaper; the second 1/2 page, ca 50 words, on E4r blank at end; and three lines on the rear free endpaper. The subjects Locke chose to record on these personal indices are revealing: "pressure of the spring of the air"; "expansive force of freezing"; "bottom of the sea"; "growth of metals" "additional experiment about hidden quality in the air"; "animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's problemata de vacuo"; "Gunpower will (but with some difficulty) flame without implosion in vacuo Boyliano"; "young animals live longer without air than grown"; "Aire the great corrupter." The present tracts all date from the period when Locke was living in London at Lord Ashley's Exeter House in the Strand. As the leader of the Oxford scientific group, Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was John Locke's mentor. Boyle's mechanical philosophy saw the world as reducible to matter in motion. Locke learned about atomism and took the terms "primary and secondary qualities" from Boyle. "Exactly when Locke first became acquainted with the ideas of the new mechanical philosophy is not easily determined. There seems to be no evidence that he had any links with the group of innovators associated with John Wilkins at Wadham College, the nucleus of the future Royal Society, and if he had read anything by Descartes during his first years at Oxford there is no trace of it among his papers. By May 1660 he had made the acquaintance of Robert Boyle, who probably introduced him to these new ideas. Locke augmented his continuing medical studies with a thorough course of reading in mechanical philosophy, starting with Boyle's recently published New Essays Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air (1660)…" ( DNB ). Locke left England briefly in 1665, and returned to Oxford in 1666 and resumed his studies in chemistry and medicine. "He was particularly interested in the physiology of respiration, and had for some years been closely following the work being done by Boyle, Hooke, and others. It was probably about this time that he drafted a short work on the purpose of respiration; this was written in the form of a scholastic disput
LOCKE, John (1632-1704), his copy]. BOYLE, Robert. A volume of three works from the library of John Locke. 8° (187 x 122 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, lettered "Boyle" by Locke in manuscript on spine, UNCUT (some light soiling and cockling); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : John Locke (signature and annotations, see below); Sir Thomas Phillipps (sold Sotheby’s London, 30 June 1976, lot 4426); anonymous consignor, sold Sotheby’s London, 29 November 1982, lot 124. COMPRISING
LOCKE, John (1632-1704), his copy]. BOYLE, Robert. A volume of three works from the library of John Locke. 8° (187 x 122 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, lettered "Boyle" by Locke in manuscript on spine, UNCUT (some light soiling and cockling); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : John Locke (signature and annotations, see below); Sir Thomas Phillipps (sold Sotheby’s London, 30 June 1976, lot 4426); anonymous consignor, sold Sotheby’s London, 29 November 1982, lot 124. COMPRISING : Tracts Written By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions . London: Richard Davis 1672. With blank A1 and terminal blanks xx7-8. (Marginal repaired tear on o2.) FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE . Wing B-4060; Fulton 101. Tracts Consisting of Observations About the Saltness of the Sea . London: E. Flesher for R. Davis, 1674. 8°. With blank A1. (Quire N misbound after preliminaries, rust-hole on G8 affecting two letters in headline, marginal tears on L1 and M3.) FIRST EDITION . Wing B-4053; Fulton 113. [ Tracts: Containing I. Suspicions about some Hidden Qualities of the Air . London: W.G…. sold by M. Pitt, 1674]. 8°. With both titles for the 'Cause of Attraction by Suction' and Advertisement to the Binder leaf. (General title cancelled and not replaced, repaired marginal tear on B4.) FIRST EDITION . Wing B-4054; Fulton 119. A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY, CONNECTING TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT 17TH-CENTURY ENGLISH THINKERS JOHN LOCKE'S COPY , with his signature and check letters inside the front cover, symbol at foot of first title, rare paraph on the last page (located in only 36 of Locke's books, its secret meaning unrevealed) and title and press-mark on the spine. WITH MANUSCRIPT SUBJECT AND PAGE LISTS by Locke, the first 1 1/4 pages, ca 70 words, on a leaf tipped to the front free endpaper; the second 1/2 page, ca 50 words, on E4r blank at end; and three lines on the rear free endpaper. The subjects Locke chose to record on these personal indices are revealing: "pressure of the spring of the air"; "expansive force of freezing"; "bottom of the sea"; "growth of metals" "additional experiment about hidden quality in the air"; "animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's problemata de vacuo"; "Gunpower will (but with some difficulty) flame without implosion in vacuo Boyliano"; "young animals live longer without air than grown"; "Aire the great corrupter." The present tracts all date from the period when Locke was living in London at Lord Ashley's Exeter House in the Strand. As the leader of the Oxford scientific group, Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was John Locke's mentor. Boyle's mechanical philosophy saw the world as reducible to matter in motion. Locke learned about atomism and took the terms "primary and secondary qualities" from Boyle. "Exactly when Locke first became acquainted with the ideas of the new mechanical philosophy is not easily determined. There seems to be no evidence that he had any links with the group of innovators associated with John Wilkins at Wadham College, the nucleus of the future Royal Society, and if he had read anything by Descartes during his first years at Oxford there is no trace of it among his papers. By May 1660 he had made the acquaintance of Robert Boyle, who probably introduced him to these new ideas. Locke augmented his continuing medical studies with a thorough course of reading in mechanical philosophy, starting with Boyle's recently published New Essays Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air (1660)…" ( DNB ). Locke left England briefly in 1665, and returned to Oxford in 1666 and resumed his studies in chemistry and medicine. "He was particularly interested in the physiology of respiration, and had for some years been closely following the work being done by Boyle, Hooke, and others. It was probably about this time that he drafted a short work on the purpose of respiration; this was written in the form of a scholastic disput
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