Author: BACON, FRANCIS
Title: Sylva Sylvarum: Or, a Natural Historie, in Ten Centuries. [with] a New Atlantis
Description: London: Printed for William Lee, And are to be sold by Thomas Williams at the Bible in Little-Britain, and William Place at Grays-Inne Gate in Holburn, 1658. Seventh Edition. Full leather. 300mm x 200mm (12" x 8"). [xviii], 218pp + table; [v], 36pp; [vii], 64pp. Contains wood-cut head pieces and initials and pictorial title page (1651). Whereunto is Newly Added the History Naturall and Experimentall of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. Both Written by The Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors death, By William Rawley Doctor in Divinity, on of his Majesties Chaplains. Bound with New Atlantis. A Work Unfinished. Engraved pictorial title page of 1651 Edition bound opposite front paste-down (Printed W. Lee at the Great Turks head next to the Mytre Tavrne in Fleetstreet).. G: in good condition. Respined with repairs to leather at corners. Faint gilt ruling barely visible. Heavy rubbing to boards. Shelf-wear. No title label to spine. Missing endpapers. Title pages creased. Browning, foxing, and water staining to prelims and sporadically throughout. Occasional ink and pencil inscriptions. Some mispagination .

Keywords: Science 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian


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