Sylva sylvarum: or A natural history, in ten centuries.

Gibson: 1823
Folger bibliographic ID: 146325
ESTC number: R227110
Wing number: B334
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 221274

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General notes

With additional engraved title page (plate), with imprint "Printed for W. Lee ..." and signed "Tho. Cecill Sculp:" With divisional title page on leaf Y1r: Nevv Atlantis. A vvork unfinished "History natural and experimental." has separate title page, with imprint "printed for Thomas Lee ... 1676" on leaf 2B1r "Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals." has separate title page, with imprint "printed for Thomas Lee ... 1676", and register; pagination begins on leaf ²A2v with p. 222 "The novum organum" has separate title page, with imprint "printed for Thomas Lee ... 1676", pagination and register Imprimatur on verso of "The novum organum" title page reads: Licens'd Jan 26. 1675. Roger L'Estrange Includes index A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1676 edition

Extended title: Sylva sylvarum: or A natural history, in ten centuries. : Together with the history natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And the new Atlantis. With an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries. Written by the right honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. Published after the authors death, by William Rawley, D.D. his lordships chaplain: and afterwards one of His Majesties chaplains. Now is added an epitomy of his lordships Novum organum; being translated for the clearer understanding of this his natural history. Never before published in English
Alternate titles: Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals, New Atlantis. A work unfinished, Nevv Atlantis. A vvork unfinished, History natural and experimental, Novum organum

Natural history

author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
printmaker: Cecil, Thomas, active 1630
associated with: Rawley, William, 1588?-1667
former owner: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934