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London: Printed by John Haviland, for William Lee, and are to be sould at the Great Turks head next to the Mitre Taverne in Fleetstreet, 1639. FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. An attractive, crisp copy in contemporary English speckled calfskin, ruled in blind (light wear to extremities, discreet repairs to head-cap, the lowest compartment of the spine sympathetically restored; a few light scrapes to the boards.) Complete with the engraved allegorical title page (dated 1631) and engraved portrait of Bacon. The text is type-ruled throughout. Small tear in outer margin of title (no loss). Woodcut head-pieces and initials at the opening of each book. The "New Atlantis" is introduced by a separate, undated title page. Provenance: 18th c. black ink stamp of a ram, with "Sheppard" and the number "10" stamped beneath. Possibly the mark of Thomas Sheppard (d. 1763). See David Pearson, "Book Owners Online" for more on this puzzling stamp. First published in 1627, the year after Bacon's death, the…
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Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural Historie in Ten Centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors death, By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, one of his Maiesties Chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an Alphebeticall Table of the principall things contained in the whole Worke. The fifth Edition
by Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626)
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