statement of responsibility: by Robert Hooke, S. R. S

Each part has separate t.p. and pagination, dated 1674-1678

Title printed within double rule border

Head-pieces; initials

Pagination for the 6 parts: [xiv], 28; [8], 78; [4], 32; [2], 54; [8], 112; [2], 56 p. Interspersed with 18 variously numbered and unnumbered leaves of plates

citation/reference: Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 147

citation/reference: Wing H2617

citation/reference: ESTC (online) R4280

An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations made by Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society. London: Printed by T.R. for John Martyn ..., 1674 -- Animadversions on the first part of the Machina coelestis of ... Johannes Hevelius ... together with an explication of some instruments made by Robert Hooke ... London: Printed by T.R. for John Martyn ..., 1674 -- A description of helioscopes, and some other instruments made by Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society. London: Printed by T.R. for John Martyn ..., 1676 -- Lampas, or, Descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises, together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries, made by Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society. London: Printed for John Martyn ..., 1677 -- Lectures and collections made by Robert Hooke, secretary of the Royal Society: Cometa ... [and] Microscopium ... London: Printed for J. Martyn ..., 1678 -- Lectures de potentia restitutivâ, or of spring, explaining the power of springing bodies. To which are added some collections ... by Robert Hooke, S.R.S. London: Printed for John Martyn ..., 1678

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Wing

ESTC (online)

SCDIRB copy 39088016912453 is imperfect: lacks tab. 3 from the tract on helioscopes (cf. p. 31);also lacks various blank leaves

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Herald of Science no. 147

SCDIRB copy has some old handwritten markings and annotations in ink in the margins

SCDIRB copy has an old gilt-tooled red morocco leather binding with raised bands, and marbled endpapers and edges; re-backed. The binding has a gilt-stamped armorial seal on covers: Sigill. W.W. Baronis Grenville Cancellarii Academiae Oxoniensis. Housed in a later red cloth slipcase