large period folio print of Robert Boyle with 2 pages of text, the engraving titled at the bottom 'Geo. Vertue del & Sculpt, 1739, IN the collection of Dr. Mead, Inpenfis J & P Knapton, London 1740, J Kerfseboom, print' the portrait of Boyle surrounded by various scientific instruments and flasks,

Robert Boyle FRS was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist, and inventor. He is widely recognized as a prominent figure in the history of science. Boyle's contributions position him as a key pioneer of modern chemistry and a foundational figure in the advancement of modern experimental scientific methodologies.