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Paperback / softback. New.

Legare Street Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Hardback. New.

Legare Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London, Printed by J.F. for William Lee, and are to be sold at the Great Turks Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet, , 1651.. 1651 Folio. [12], 218, [26], 36, [8], 64 p. New Atlantis and History Naturall and Experimentall with part titles. Lacking the frontispiece and the additional engraved title page. Rebound in the 1950s in half black morocco with marbled boards with some rubbing to the lower corners. Title page laid down.

London: Printed by J.F. and S.G. for William Lee, and are to be sold by Thomas Williams at the Bible in Little-Brittain , 1664. Book measures 29x20.cm. Collation, [16], 218, [24], 221-228,[2],36, [8], 64pp, engraved portrait and title page. Rebacked, retaining the period boards, raised bands. Boards rubbed, minor wear loss. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, pages edges uneven. Pages in very good clean condition. A good solid clean copy. F. Eighth Edition. Leather. Very Good. Quarto.

London: Printed for William Lee, 1658. Folio. [16], 218, [26], 36, [8], 64 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved additional title. Sectional title pages with separate pagination and register. Early calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands, morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Gloddaeth Library (booklabel); The Garden Library (booklabel) The Garden Library copy. Bacon's posthumously published anthology of extracts from many books, mostly from antiquity, and with Bacon's own experiments and observations on natural philosophy. At the end of the volume, Rawley has included his "New Atlantis. A Work unfinished," a description of a utopian island and its scientific community. ESTC R27204; Wing B328; Gibson 177b.

London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard; and Tho. Dring at the George in Fleet-street, 1653. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo (142 x 80 mm). [24], 384, [32] pp., including engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, and final blank, without 8pp. advertisements found in some copies (see Gibson). Text in double-ruled borders. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and re-sewn, corners little scuffed. 4 leaves with partially erased ink marginalia in purple pencil, occasional spotting or light soiling. Top margin trimmed close, often shaving outer ruled borders and slightly shaving page number on p.228. Provenance: Nicholas Wall (small bookplate to rear pastedown). Still a very good and fairly fresh copy. ---- Gibson 115; Wing B305; Sotheran I, 5911; ESTC R208945. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first published in Latin in 1622, and exceptionally rare. The translation is… Read More