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BACON, Francis, Viscount St. Albans. Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning of the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes, Oxford: by L. Lichfield, for R. Young & E. Forrest, 1640.
2°, engraved frontispiece and title by William Marshall, woodcut head-pieces and initials (frontispiece, title, beginning and a few leaves throughout lightly waterstained, C1 stained, gathering C almost detached, occasional spotting or light thumb-soiling), contemporary calf (rebacked, covers stained, corners bumped). Provenance: old annotations to front endpaper and occasionally in the text; Hugh Percy, bookplate. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE EXPANDED EDITION, second issue with the colophon dated 1640. Gibson 141b; STC 1167.3.
BROWNE, Thomas. Pseudoxia epidemica; or, Enquiries into very many received tenets, and commonly presumed truths, London: by A. Millar, for E. Dod and N. Ekins, 1650. Small 2° (some very light waterstaining to upper margin, a few spots, occasional light thumb-soiling), contemporary calf (rebacked with old spine relaid, rubbed). Second edition. Wing B5160. (2)
2°, engraved frontispiece and title by William Marshall, woodcut head-pieces and initials (frontispiece, title, beginning and a few leaves throughout lightly waterstained, C1 stained, gathering C almost detached, occasional spotting or light thumb-soiling), contemporary calf (rebacked, covers stained, corners bumped). Provenance: old annotations to front endpaper and occasionally in the text; Hugh Percy, bookplate. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE EXPANDED EDITION, second issue with the colophon dated 1640. Gibson 141b; STC 1167.3.
BROWNE, Thomas. Pseudoxia epidemica; or, Enquiries into very many received tenets, and commonly presumed truths, London: by A. Millar, for E. Dod and N. Ekins, 1650. Small 2° (some very light waterstaining to upper margin, a few spots, occasional light thumb-soiling), contemporary calf (rebacked with old spine relaid, rubbed). Second edition. Wing B5160. (2)