De ipsa natura, sive libera in receptam naturae notionem disquisitio

Robert Boyle; David Abercromby. [Translator]

Londini : Typis H. Clark, Impensis Johannis Taylor, 1687.

12mo. [26], 176 [i.e. 193], [4 pp ads] Contemporary speckled sheep. Restoration to spine. Modern red leather spine label. Rehinged and rejointed. Leather re-varnished. Occasional marginal dampstaining, scattered spotting, old signature on title, small hole in B1 affecting a few words, small clean tear in lower outer corner of G5.

First edition in Latin of Boyle's 1686 Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature, an exposition of his mechanical conception of nature. This works represents one of the subtlest statements concerning the issues raised by the mechanical philosophy that emerged from the Scientific Revolution. Keynes 171; Wing B3979.