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BACON, Francis (1561-1626). The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605.
4o (186 x 139 mm). Without the 2 added leaves of errata at end present in some copies ("not often found" according to Gibson). Contemporary English blind-tooled calf (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance: Thomas H. Hollway (faint purchase inscription on title-page: "bought at John Woodford Sale 15 May 1816"); Louis E. Goodman (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE "PREPARATIVE OR KEY FOR THE OPENING OF THE INSTAURATION" (Grolier/Horblit). The Advancement of learning was the first of two works in which Bacon expounded his philosophy of scientific method. It was expanded and latinized as De augmentis scientiarum in 1623. "In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology" (Norman). It was the only work Bacon ever published in English. Gibson 81; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Pforzheimer 36; STC 1164; Norman 97.
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FIRST EDITION OF THE "PREPARATIVE OR KEY FOR THE OPENING OF THE INSTAURATION" (Grolier/Horblit). The Advancement of learning was the first of two works in which Bacon expounded his philosophy of scientific method. It was expanded and latinized as De augmentis scientiarum in 1623. "In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology" (Norman). It was the only work Bacon ever published in English. Gibson 81; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Pforzheimer 36; STC 1164; Norman 97.