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BACON, Francis. Sylva Sylvarum or A Naturall History, London: for W. Rawley and William Lee, 1658. 3 parts in one volume, 4°, engraved title, printed title in each part, woodcut headpieces and initials (lacks portrait frontispiece, first title torn with loss, short tear with loss to C3 in pt. I, short tears with losses and old repair to L in pt. III, occasional spotting, browning and fraying), later calf, spine with raised bands and red calf lettering piece (rubbed, head of spine splitting), ownership inscriptions on title. Seventh edition. Gibson 177b; Wing B328.
With John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, (London. 1904, reprint of 1629 edition), and Emily Maria Grey's Grasses Printed from Nature (Bedfont Lodge, 1863). (3)
With John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, (London. 1904, reprint of 1629 edition), and Emily Maria Grey's Grasses Printed from Nature (Bedfont Lodge, 1863). (3)
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