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BACON, FRANCIS, Sir. Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam; sive, Phaenomena universi. [8], 285, [3] pages, including final blank * Historia Vitae & Mortis. [6], 454 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary vellum, lacking ties; first title soiled, with armorial bookplate of Jesus College, Cambridge, dated 1700 on verso, next 2 leaves loose, scattered minor marginal stains, front free endpaper lacking. London: John Haviland for Matthew Lownes and William Barret, 1622; John Haviland for Matthew Lownes, 1623
first editions of a natural history of winds and a treatise on the aging process and death, forming the first 2 books of the third part of Bacon's Instauratio magna, his projected systematization of scientific knowledge. Gibson 108, 147; STC 1155, 1156.
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