On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:05:03 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
I don't know much about the publishing history of that work (or indeed the work itself til about five minutes ago) but you could be sitting on a small fortune there: http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/cum/212364.shtml .
My father is very keen on Hooke, and the five volumes I have (which were bought for him as a birthday present by my mum. They were previously owned by Margaret 'Espinasse, who wrote an authoritative biography of Hooke also cited as a source in the article.
We paid, I think, £300 around 1985, but we don't have the other 11 volumes, and they are not a matched set. Guy (JzG)