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BACON, Francis -- MALLET, David (1705-1765). Zhitie [-- Sokrashchenie Filosofii] Kantslera Frantsiska Bakona. [The Life (-- Abridged Philosophy) of Francis Bacon.] Translated by Vasilii Trediakovskii. Moscow: at the Imperial University, 1760. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (238 x 184mm). (Dampstained, tear in the inner margin of the last leaf, occasional soiling.) Contemporary Russian calf, edges dyed red (worn with loss at the spine and extremities). Provenance: an early reader (indistinct cancelled signatures) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps).
BACON, Francis -- MALLET, David (1705-1765). Zhitie [-- Sokrashchenie Filosofii] Kantslera Frantsiska Bakona. [The Life (-- Abridged Philosophy) of Francis Bacon.] Translated by Vasilii Trediakovskii. Moscow: at the Imperial University, 1760. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (238 x 184mm). (Dampstained, tear in the inner margin of the last leaf, occasional soiling.) Contemporary Russian calf, edges dyed red (worn with loss at the spine and extremities). Provenance: an early reader (indistinct cancelled signatures) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps).

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BACON, Francis -- MALLET, David (1705-1765). Zhitie [-- Sokrashchenie Filosofii] Kantslera Frantsiska Bakona. [The Life (-- Abridged Philosophy) of Francis Bacon.] Translated by Vasilii Trediakovskii. Moscow: at the Imperial University, 1760. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (238 x 184mm). (Dampstained, tear in the inner margin of the last leaf, occasional soiling.) Contemporary Russian calf, edges dyed red (worn with loss at the spine and extremities). Provenance: an early reader (indistinct cancelled signatures) -- Russian bookseller (small stamps).

FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN of a work praised by Fielding for its and judgment and 'nervous, manly style'; Gibbon also admired the 'vigorous sense' of Mallet as a historian (quoted in ODNB). WorldCat locates copies only at Harvard and at the British Library. Sopikov 4066; SK 4022.