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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bacon, Francis |
| Title: |
Sylva Sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the history naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Printed by J. F. for William Lee |
| Date: |
1651 |
| Item # : |
206196 |
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| Sale Number |
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429 |
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13 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Kent Johnson (with additions) |
| Sale Date |
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05/27/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 720 |
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| Description: |
| [18] (incl. added engraved title), 218, [26], 36, [8], 64 pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece portrait & the added engraved title. (folio) 26.8x17.2 cm. (10½x6¾"), 20th century half brown morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Sixth Edition. |
| Compilation of the miscellaneous scientific writings and experiments of Francis Bacon. Bound with, as issued, "New Atlantis. A worke unfinished" [n. p., n.d], and "History naturall and experimentall, of life and death, or of the prolongation of life", printed for William Lee and Humphrey Moseley in 1650. |
| Condition: |
| Moderate rubbing to edges and corners of binding; margins trimmed close affecting some letter on two or three leaves towards rear, 2 cm. missing from upper right corner of title-page., blind-stamp ownership mark on title-page and following preliminary leaf, both with a light dampstain, and the latter also with a small dark stain and faint ink number stamp; overall very good. |
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