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BACON, Francis. Opera omnia, quae extant: philosophica, moralia, politica, historica, Frankfurt: J. B. Schönwetter, 1665. 2°, half title, title printed in red and black with large printer's device, double column (lacking the portrait, paper repair to verso of half title with loss of 2 letters, supplied in manuscript, lightly browned throughout), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked); signatures of William Dering (on title) and William Stapleton, dated 1789 (on endpaper), red morocco bookplate W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. Gibson 236.
BACON, Francis. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works, civil, historical, philosophical, theological, hitherto sleeping, London: by Sarah Griffin, for William Lee, 1657. Small 2°, engraved frontispiece portrait of Bacon (some waterstaining, stronger in the second half), contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt border on covers (rebacked with old spine relaid, front cover almost detached), bookplates of the Right Honourable Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, and Baron Capell of Hadham dated 1701 (on verso of title) and W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. FIRST EDITION. Gibson 226; Wing B319.
With another copy of the second named item (lacking portrait). (3)
BACON, Francis. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works, civil, historical, philosophical, theological, hitherto sleeping, London: by Sarah Griffin, for William Lee, 1657. Small 2°, engraved frontispiece portrait of Bacon (some waterstaining, stronger in the second half), contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt border on covers (rebacked with old spine relaid, front cover almost detached), bookplates of the Right Honourable Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, and Baron Capell of Hadham dated 1701 (on verso of title) and W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. FIRST EDITION. Gibson 226; Wing B319.
With another copy of the second named item (lacking portrait). (3)
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