BACON, Roger (1214?-1294). Opus majus ad clementem quartum ... nunc primum edidit S. Jebb, London: William Bowyer, 1733, 2° (372 x 244mm.), FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 2 folding engraved plates, one folding letterpress table (outer lower corner of some leaves dampstained, else clean with wide margins), contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, corners restored). [Dawson 348; Dibner 76; Norman 99; Sotheran 5913; Sparrow 18; Wellcome II, 83].

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BACON, Roger (1214?-1294). Opus majus ad clementem quartum ... nunc primum edidit S. Jebb, London: William Bowyer, 1733, 2° (372 x 244mm.), FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 2 folding engraved plates, one folding letterpress table (outer lower corner of some leaves dampstained, else clean with wide margins), contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, corners restored). [Dawson 348; Dibner 76; Norman 99; Sotheran 5913; Sparrow 18; Wellcome II, 83].

拍品專文

"First edition of one of the most important scientific and philosophical works of the Middle Ages. Composed in the 13th century it contains the result of Bacon's researches and constitutes a scientific encyclopaedia of the time. Roger Bacon, being a forerunner of experimental and inductive science, investigated telescopes, flying machines, the principles of vision, alchemy, geometry, etc., etc." (Dawson)