Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural Historie in Ten Centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors death, By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, one of his Maiesties Chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an Alphebeticall Table of the principall things contained in the whole Worke. The fifth Edition.
London: Printed by John Haviland, for William Lee, and are to be sould at the Great Turks head next to the Mitre Taverne in Fleetstreet, 1639.
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An attractive, crisp copy in contemporary English speckled calfskin, ruled in blind (light wear to extremities, discreet repairs to head-cap, the lowest compartment of the spine sympathetically restored; a few light scrapes to the boards.) Complete with the engraved allegorical title page (dated 1631) and engraved portrait of Bacon. The...