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Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, or the Partitions of Sciences IX bookes ... / Interpreted by Gilbert Wats. [A retranslation into English of the "De Augmentis Scientiarum."].

Accession number
PML 37241
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
Oxford : Leon:Lichfield, for Rob: Young & Ed. Forrest, 1640.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
T.p. and portrait of Bacon (facing p. 5) dated 1640 engr. by William Marshall (fl. 1630-1650).
Another issue for 1640. First issued with the date in the colophon reading 1639.
Colophon on last page dated MDCXXXX and the word Impensis with the long s.
Description
2 pt.
Provenance
"H. Brooke" and "Brooke" in two autographs on t.p.; the book-label of Henry Verry on fly-leaf; ex libris of Roland L. Redmond; from the collection of G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 36).
Binding
Mottled calf.
Classification
Department