Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Operum Moralium et Civilium.

London: Typis Edward Griffin, apud Richard Whitaker, 1638.

First collected edition in Latin, folio, portrait frontispiece of Bacon bound opposite the first page of the History of Henry VII, ownership stamp of Catholic Father James Condamin to title page, who purchased it from Boussus (with their 1917 description clipped and pasted on ffep), with other notes; bound in contemporary parchment over boards, some light soiling and foxing, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

STC 1109; Gibson 196.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.