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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bacon, Francis |
| Title: |
[Works] i.e. Opera Omnia, Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Hactenus Edita, ad Autographorum maxime fidem emendantur, Nonnulla etiam, ex MSS Codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt... |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
R. Gosling |
| Date: |
1730 |
| Item # : |
121416 |
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| Sale Number |
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255 |
| Lot Number |
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68 |
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01/09/2003 |
| Price realized |
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$ 431 |
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| Description: |
| 4 vols. Edited by John Blackbourne. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece to each volume. (4to) 12½x7¾, old mottled calf rebacked with nineteenth century straight grain morocco, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, decorative gilt margins, page edges stained red. |
| Contents include: Dr. Rawley's life of the author; Instauratio magna, pars I, sive De augmentis scientiarum; In quo continetur Instaurationis magnae pars tertia; Natural history; Physiological and medical remains; The new Atlantis; His Apothegms; Colours of good and evil; History of the reign of Henry VII; History of Henry VIII; Beginning of the history of Great Britain; Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Villiers; Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law; Cases of treason; Report of Lopez's treason; Of the plantations in Ireland; Advice about Sutton's estate; Letters in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; Treasons of Robert Earl of Essex; Letters in the reign of King James and more. Volumes I and II with text in Latin, Volumes III and IV with text in English. Gibson 248. |
| Condition: |
| Wear and flaking to covers from old mottling, corners somewhat bumped, slight creases to spines, joints a bit rubbed; occasional light foxing, mounted copper-engraved bookplate on India paper to each volume, contents near fine; else a very good or better set in a sturdy binding. |
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