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The naturall and experimentall history of vvinds, &c. / Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo: Verulam, viscount St. Alban. Translated into English by R. G. gent.

Accession number
PML 37237
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London : H. Moseley [etc.], 1653.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
Originally intended to form a part of the author's Instauratio magna, a work which was not completed. cf. British museum Catalogue, new ed.
First ed. in English.
Portrait of Bacon engr. by Thomas Cross, fl. 1635-1685.
Hazlitt, Halkett & Laing and DNB do not identify R.G. the translator.
Description
12 p. l., 384, [30] p. : port. ; 14 1/2 cm.
Provenance
With book-plate of G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 70); Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
Blue morocco, gilt by Rivière & Son.
Classification
Department