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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 51

BACON (FRANCIS)
Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes, Oxford, Leon Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest, 1640

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BACON (FRANCIS)

Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved allegorical title-page, woodcut headers and initials, small piece of blank upper margin torn away, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S106902; Gibson 141b], small folio (284 x 190mm.), Oxford, Leon Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest, 1640

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FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue with colophon dated 1640. Enlarged and expanded from the 1605 Latin edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Bacon engraved by William Marshall.

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