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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bacon, Francis, Sir |
| Title: |
De augmentis scientiarum |
| Place: |
Leiden |
| Publisher: |
Adriani Wijngaerden |
| Date: |
1652 |
| Item # : |
201628 |
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| Sale Number |
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402 |
| Lot Number |
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15 |
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| Fine Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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04/30/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 180 |
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| Description: |
| [20], 684, [60] pp. Copper-engraved pictorial title-page. (12mo) 5½x2¾, period calf, rebacked with later morocco, leather spine label. |
| D.S.B. II p. 374 :" In 'de augm.', which is concerned primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences, Bacon develops his influential view of the relation between science and theology." Inscribed on front free endpaper, "Greville M. MacDonald from his father," with further inscription from Greville to his brother Ronald. |
| Condition: |
| Scuffing to joints and extremities, label starting to lift; dampstain to first third of contents, diminishing to affecting just the lower corners, else very good. |
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