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| Author: |
Bacon, Francis |
| Title: |
Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes. Written in Latin by the Most Eminent Illustrious & Famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Vicont St Alban Counsilour of Estate and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats |
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Oxford |
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Printed by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest |
| Date: |
1640 |
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206027 |
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424 |
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4 |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
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03/18/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 780 |
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| Description: |
| [38] (including frontispiece & engraved title), 60, [14], 477 [i.e. 479], [20] pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece & title-page. (folio) 11x6¾, period calf, rebacked with later leather, later endpapers. First Edition in English of the Expanded Edition, Second Issue. |
| Translation of the De Augmentis Scientiarum (first part of the Instauratis Magna) which is an enlargement of the Advancement of Learning, 1605. STC 1167. With ownership signatures/inscriptions on front flyleaf of H. Cartwright, 1754, and G.W. Southouse, 1836; on the back of the frontispiece is the early signature of Robert Dangerfield. Bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead. Provenance: From the Library of Arthur M. Ellis. |
| Condition: |
| Some staining and wear to the covers; a very nice copy. |
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