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Sylva Sylvarum: Sive, Historia Naturalis in Decem Centurias Distributa Et Novus Atlas [Sylva or A Natural History in Ten Centuries Distributed With A New Atlantis]

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Bacon, Francis

Catalogue No.: frb25aa

Publisher:	Leiden: Franciscum Hackium Lug Batovr
Edition:	Reprint; Published Date: 1648
Illustrations:	Contains wood-cut head pieces and initials and pictorial title page
Dimensions:	130 x 80 mm (5 x 3 inches) - [34pp], 612pp, [48pp], 87pp, [1] pp.
Appearance:	Full leather.
Condition:	Worn condition. Loss to backstrip of spine - binding weak - hinges fragile . Some creasing to end papers with erased inscription to upper edge of fep. Contents clean and tight.

'Sylva Sylvarum or a natural history in ten centuries was published posthumously (but very soon after Bacon’s death in April 1626) by his tutor William Rawley. It was by far the most widely read of Bacon’s writings, at least in seventeenth century England.

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Sylva Sylvarum: Sive, Historia Naturalis in Decem Centurias Distributa Et Novus Atlas [Sylva or A Natural History in Ten Centuries Distributed With A New Atlantis]

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