Experiments, notes, &c., about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities: among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum
Robert Boyle's 1675 London treatise on the mechanical causes of qualities and the chymists' doctrine, printed by Elizabeth Flesher for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford, and aimed at natural philosophers and scientific readers. The pictures are a heraldic bookplate of William Lee of Hartwell, Bucks, a crest and shield with motto, a large printed heading, and a later library gift label, showing how armorial engraving frames ownership and provenance.
