Bacon, Francis [ 1561-1626.] - EXEMPLUM TRACTATUS DE JUSTITIA UNIVERSALI

paris, Vincent [via St.Severini] 1752 . 12mo marbled leather gilt ruled & spine ornamentally gilt with darker brown gilt spine title label {two pin-holes to covers/sm.splits to hinge but covers quite firm/tips worn] edges sprinkled red dyes.] xxiv + 161pp includes index, + [7pp=Permission +Approbation] Free marbled front entpaper with short narrow strip torn from top edge, traces of bookseller price codes in pencil to verso & blank leaf. The original silk bookmark is still in place and the pages are all clean and crisp, no tears, no loose pages,no annotations in the text. A rare Bacon item with only 5 copies in WorldCat of this 1st edition. No copies seem to be for sale. Scarce

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