BACON, Francis (Viscount St. Albans) (1561-1626). [Historia vitae & mortis. English] History Naturall and Experimentall, of life and death. Or of the prolongation of life, edited by William Rawley, London: by John Haviland for William Lee and Humphrey Mosley, 1638, 12°, second English edition, title and text within ruled borders, with imprimatur leaf at beginning and end (some margins shaved occasionally affecting running title, C5 torn at outer margin with slight loss to border and rather crudely repaired, D5v and D6r affected by old ink smudges), 18th-century panelled calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration (joints splitting, lettering-piece lacking). [Krivatsy 555; Gibson 154; STC 1158]

細節

BACON, Francis (Viscount St. Albans) (1561-1626). [Historia vitae & mortis. English] History Naturall and Experimentall, of life and death. Or of the prolongation of life, edited by William Rawley, London: by John Haviland for William Lee and Humphrey Mosley, 1638, 12°, second English edition, title and text within ruled borders, with imprimatur leaf at beginning and end (some margins shaved occasionally affecting running title, C5 torn at outer margin with slight loss to border and rather crudely repaired, D5v and D6r affected by old ink smudges), 18th-century panelled calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration (joints splitting, lettering-piece lacking). [Krivatsy 555; Gibson 154; STC 1158]

來源

Manuscript note in an early hand on E3r, mentioning the omission of the tortoise as a long-lived creature; and a note in the same hand at lower margin of H7r commenting that "Old Parr had much hair" (slightly cropped).

拍品專文

First published by J. Haviland in 1623. The first English edition appeared in 1637.