Sylva sylvarvm: or, A naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Rawley Doctor of Divinity, late his Lordships Chaplaine. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole work.

Accession number

PML 37257

Creator

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Published

London : Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, and are to be sold by Iohn Williams, 1635.

Credit line

Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

Notes

At end, with separate t. p. and pagination is the author's New Atlantis.
With an additional title page, engraved, dated 1631 and signed "Tho: Cecill sculp:".
Frontispiece engr. port. of Bacon at the age of 66, unsigned.
Signatures: pi²; A-2B⁶ 2C⁴; a-g⁴.

Description

[24], 260, [32], 47, [5] pages : front. (port.) ; 27.5 cm (4to)

Provenance

J. Hooper, signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.

Binding

Contemporary dark blue calf, gilt tooled.

Classification

Book

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