Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, 1748
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Author: Bacon, Francis
Title: Sylva sylvarum, sive historia naturalis, in decem centurias distributa
Place Published: Lug. Batavor.
Publisher:Apud Franciscum Hackium
Date Published: 1648
Description:
Author: Bacon, Francis
Title: Sylva sylvarum, sive historia naturalis, in decem centurias distributa
Place Published: Lug. Batavor.
Publisher:Apud Franciscum Hackium
Date Published: 1648
Description:
[36], (incl. added engraved title), 612, [48], 87, [1] pp. (12mo) 12x7 cm (4¾x2¾"), period vellum, inked spine title, yapp edges.
Compendium of scientific knowledge. This wide-ranging gathering of interesting observations in natural history was first published posthumously by the author's chaplain and secretary, Dr. Rawley, in 1626, and appears here translated into Latin by Jacob Gruterus. The present edition was, as Willems puts it, "exécutée" at Leyden by Hackius for Elzevier; some examples bear Elzevier's imprint and some Hackius's. The Novus Atlas accompanies the title work, with both having prefaces by Rawley. Provenance: Inside of front board (under lifted pastedown) with armorial bookplate of Alexander Oswald Brodie (not, please note, the American officer and governor of Arizona Territory); title-page with Brodie's inked inscription, dated 1839, Dresden. Brunet, I, 604; Gibson, Bacon, 185b; Willems 1058.Condition
A little wear to covers, pastedowns lifted, free endpapers lacking; very good.
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