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 Author: Bacon, Francis Place Oxford Publisher: Printed by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest Date: 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Some staining and wear to the covers; a very nice copy. Item number: 206027
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 Author: Bacon, Francis Place Oxford Publisher: Printed by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest Date: 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Some staining and wear to the covers; a very nice copy. Item number: 206027
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