Lot #13 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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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

Author:

Bacon, Francis

Place Published:

Oxford

Publisher:

Printed by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest

Date Published:

1640

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.

Item#:

131432

Headline:

Bacon's Advancement of Learning 1640
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Sale 265: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#265) 06/12/2003 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/12/2003 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #13 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

Sale 265: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#265) 06/12/2003 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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