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BACON (FRANCIS) Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, John Haviland, for William Lee, 1635 image 1
BACON (FRANCIS) Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, John Haviland, for William Lee, 1635 image 2
BACON (FRANCIS) Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, John Haviland, for William Lee, 1635 image 3
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 52

BACON (FRANCIS)
Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, John Haviland, for William Lee, 1635

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BACON (FRANCIS)

Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie, engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved allegorical title (dated 1631), with final blank, some light marginal dampstains, several marginal annotations in an early hand in the final section, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf [ESTC S106936; Gibson 174], small folio (275 x 175mm.), John Haviland, for William Lee, 1635

Footnotes

Provenance: William Maurice, of Lansil in Lancashire, inscription on title-page noting that it was gifted to him by Jo. Stokton, of Lancashire in 1655, and further ownership inscription on title. Further Seventeenth century Maurice family inscriptions on verso of portrait.

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