The historie of life and death : With observations naturall and experimentall for the prolonging of life. / Written by ... Francis lord Verulam, viscount S. Alban.

Accession number: 
PML 37228
Author: 
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published: 
London : Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosely, 1638.
Description: 
7 prelim. leaves, 323 p.
Credit: 
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes: 

First ed. in English (STC 1157).
The anonymous translation W. Rawley made a translation which was printed in the same year.
Added t.p. engraved by George Glover (fl. 1625-1650) with a medallion portrait of Bacon.

Binding: 
Dark brown morocco by Rivière & Son.
Provenance: 
Robert Masons, signature; G. Walter Steeves, bookplate (sale 25 May 1916, no. 42); Roland L. Redmond.
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