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Legare Street Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Legare Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: B. Griffin. Fair with no dust jacket. 1685. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Old full leather. Covers detached, included. Engraved title page dated 1676. The second title page is dated 1685. Few old ink margin notes to prelims. Epistle and Preface To the Reader by W. Rawley; Table of the Experiments. Text 340pp. Followed by portions of Articles of Enquiry, Touching Metals & Minerals. 222-227pp; The Novum Organum of Francis Bacon; 32pp. Few pencil notations, few wormholes, dampstains. ; quarto .

London, Printed by J.F. for William Lee, and are to be sold at the Great Turks Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet, , 1651.. 1651 Folio. [12], 218, [26], 36, [8], 64 p. New Atlantis and History Naturall and Experimentall with part titles. Lacking the frontispiece and the additional engraved title page. Rebound in the 1950s in half black morocco with marbled boards with some rubbing to the lower corners. Title page laid down.

London: Printed by J.F. and S.G. for William Lee, and are to be sold by Thomas Williams at the Bible in Little-Brittain , 1664. Book measures 29x20.cm. Collation, [16], 218, [24], 221-228,[2],36, [8], 64pp, engraved portrait and title page. Rebacked, retaining the period boards, raised bands. Boards rubbed, minor wear loss. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, pages edges uneven. Pages in very good clean condition. A good solid clean copy. F. Eighth Edition. Leather. Very Good. Quarto.

London, William Lee / George Sawbridge and other booksellers, 1670. (16)+215+(20)+(8)+64+(219-228)+31 pp. Collection of Bacon's writings: (1) Sylva sylvarum; (2) Life & Death; (3) Metals & Minerals; (4) New Atlantis; good condition (binding with moderate wear at edges; interior very good, and clean, without annotations)

London, Printed by S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B[ennet]. Griffin for Thomas Lee, at the sign of the Turks-head in Fleet street, between Mitre Court and Ram-Alley, over against Fetter-Lane, , 1676.. 1676 Folio. [14], 340, [3], 222-227, [7], 32 p. Engraved portrait and an additional engraved title page which is signed Tho. Cecill sculp. Part titles to New Atlantis, History natural and experimental, Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals and The novum organum. Bound in contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked at some time in matching goatskin. Light wear on the corners. The spine with five raised bands with the old label re-laid. Internally a clean and well margined copy. Armorial bookplate of William Wrightson of Cusworth in Yorkshire. M.P for Aylesbury and High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1819-20.

London: Printed for William Lee, 1658. Folio. [16], 218, [26], 36, [8], 64 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved additional title. Sectional title pages with separate pagination and register. Early calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands, morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Gloddaeth Library (booklabel); The Garden Library (booklabel) The Garden Library copy. Bacon's posthumously published anthology of extracts from many books, mostly from antiquity, and with Bacon's own experiments and observations on natural philosophy. At the end of the volume, Rawley has included his "New Atlantis. A Work unfinished," a description of a utopian island and its scientific community. ESTC R27204; Wing B328; Gibson 177b.