Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, operum moralium et civilium tomus. : Qui continet historiam regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliae. Sermones fideles, sive interiora rerum. Tractatum de sapientiâ veterum. Dialogum de bello sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso honoratissimo auctore, praeterquam in paucis, Latinitate donatus. Curâ & fide Guilielmi Rawley, Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris, olim dominationi suae, nunc Serenissimae Majestati Regiae, à Sacris. In hoc volumine, iterum excusi, includuntur Tractatus de augmentis scientiarum. Historia ventorum. Historia vitae & mortis. Cum priuilegio.
1638
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Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, operum moralium et civilium tomus. : Qui continet historiam regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliae. Sermones fideles, sive interiora rerum. Tractatum de sapientiâ veterum. Dialogum de bello sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso honoratissimo auctore, praeterquam in paucis, Latinitate donatus. Curâ & fide Guilielmi Rawley, Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris, olim dominationi suae, nunc Serenissimae Majestati Regiae, à Sacris. In hoc volumine, iterum excusi, includuntur Tractatus de augmentis scientiarum. Historia ventorum. Historia vitae & mortis. Cum priuilegio.
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Londini : Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini [and John Haviland]; prostant ad Insignia Regia in Coemeterio D. Pauli, apud Richardum Whitakerum [and John Norton], 1638.
Description
[16], 176, 179-386, [16], 475, [1] p. : port. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, author.
Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Note
The words "Historiam regni .. Atlantidem." and "Tractatus de augmentis .. mortis." are bracketed together on the title page.
The title page to "De sapienta veterum" includes in the imprint "annuente Francisco Constabulario". Some title pages have imprints beginning with "Londini, typis Ioh. Haviland".
"Historia regni Henrici Septimi Regis Angliae", "Sermones fideles sive, Interiora rerum" [from the Essays], "Francisci Baconi, equitis aurati procuratoris secundi, Iacobi Regis Magnae Britanniae, De sapientia veterum liber", "Dialogus de bello sacro", and "Nova Atlantis fragmentorum alterum" each have separate dated title page but continuous pagination and register. "Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Tractatus de dignitate & augmentis scientiarum" has separate pagination and two dated title pages, the first with imprint ".. Prostant .. apud Iocosam Norton & Richardum Whitakerum. .."; within this pagination, "Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam" and "Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia vitae & mortis" each have separate dated title page. Register is continuous throughout.
Variant: issued with unsold sheets of "Francisci de Verulamio, summi Angliae Cancellarij, Instauratio magna" (STC 1163). Some of these have the engraved title page cancelled by a letterpress one with imprint "Londini, apud Ioannem Billium .. M.DC.XX.".
Signatures: pi² A-2H⁶ 2I-2L⁴, 3A⁸ 3B-4R⁶ 4S⁴.
Entered to Haviland a J. Wright, sen., 4 September [1638]
The title page to "De sapienta veterum" includes in the imprint "annuente Francisco Constabulario". Some title pages have imprints beginning with "Londini, typis Ioh. Haviland".
"Historia regni Henrici Septimi Regis Angliae", "Sermones fideles sive, Interiora rerum" [from the Essays], "Francisci Baconi, equitis aurati procuratoris secundi, Iacobi Regis Magnae Britanniae, De sapientia veterum liber", "Dialogus de bello sacro", and "Nova Atlantis fragmentorum alterum" each have separate dated title page but continuous pagination and register. "Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Tractatus de dignitate & augmentis scientiarum" has separate pagination and two dated title pages, the first with imprint ".. Prostant .. apud Iocosam Norton & Richardum Whitakerum. .."; within this pagination, "Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam" and "Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia vitae & mortis" each have separate dated title page. Register is continuous throughout.
Variant: issued with unsold sheets of "Francisci de Verulamio, summi Angliae Cancellarij, Instauratio magna" (STC 1163). Some of these have the engraved title page cancelled by a letterpress one with imprint "Londini, apud Ioannem Billium .. M.DC.XX.".
Signatures: pi² A-2H⁶ 2I-2L⁴, 3A⁸ 3B-4R⁶ 4S⁴.
Entered to Haviland a J. Wright, sen., 4 September [1638]
ESTC staff note
Port. = frontis.
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 1109
Gibson, R.W. Bacon, 196
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106899
Gibson, R.W. Bacon, 196
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106899
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 1109 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs120. Pt. 2, 4D2 or 4D5 is a cancel. Provenance: manuscript initials (on back paste-down): CBF; signature of Ri: Lewis 1638
Call number
STC 1109 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Smedley. Pt. 1: Port. bound after A6. Manuscript notes. Provenance: signatures of Edwin A. Abbott, 1877 and the Vicomte de Vallognes; W.T. Smedley copy
Call number
STC 1109 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs79. Calf binding with arms of William Douglas, Duke of Queensberry, on both covers. Manuscript inscription with purchase price (?) on front free endpaper; above portrait: "Prep. D Sh. 2d. no. 39". Provenance: manuscript initials R S W.
Call number
STC 1109 copy 4
Folger-specific note
HH17/2. Contemporary calf with armorial stamp of M'Culloch in gilt on covers. Bound with: Bacon's Instauratio magna. [London, 1620]. Provenance: Harmsworth copy