Bacon (Sir Francis) The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon,
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Bacon (Sir Francis) The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane, first edition, variant b (with 'maniable' and 'through' and 'lights' in italic), with the 2 rare errata leaves at end, large woodcut initials, lacking blank 3H2, title repaired without loss of text, a couple of wormholes to outer margins, repairs to margins of ff. at end, water-stained at foot towards end, disbound, housed in a 20th century calf box, [Gibson 81; STC 1164; Pforzheimer 36; Grolier / Horblit 8a; Norman 97], small 4to, Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne gate in Holborne, 1605.
⁂ With the two rare errata leaves: 'A very few copies have appended two leaves of Errata' (Pforzheimer). 'In the Twoo Bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology' (Norman).
⁂ With the two rare errata leaves: 'A very few copies have appended two leaves of Errata' (Pforzheimer). 'In the Twoo Bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology' (Norman).
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