ID 859480
Lot 118 | The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon
Estimate value
$ 4 000 – 6 000
First edition of Bacon's only English work printed in his lifetime, "the forerunner of the De Augmentis Scientia"(Pforzheimer). [QUOTE NORMAN ON CONTENT.] According to Pforzheimer, very few copies have the two Errata leaves, which were likely only added to later copies. STC (2nd ed.), 1164; Norman 97; Pforzheimer 36.
Quarto (178 x 129mm). Without two errata leaves as often (some sheets toned.) 19th-century red morocco by Riviere (rebacked). Provenance: series of family notes relating to Thomas Majors (dead 1754), John Major (dead 1790), Sarah Major (1793) – Charles George Milnes Gaskell, 1842-1919, English lawyer and friend of Henry Adams and Henry James (morocco bookplate).
| Place of origin: | United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Medicine & science, Printed books |
| Place of origin: | United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Medicine & science, Printed books |
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