Sylva sylvarum
or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added, The history natural and experimental of liee [sic] and death; or, Of the prolongation of life.
by Francis Bacon
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Early works to 1800, Natural history, Science, Experiments, Pre-Linnean works, Utopias, Metals, LongevityPeople
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Sylva sylvarum: or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added, The history natural and experimental of liee [sic] and death; or, Of the prolongation of life.
1670, Printed by J.R. for VVilliam Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg, Francis Tyton, John Martin, Thomas Vere, Randolph Taylor, Edward Thomas, Thomas Passenger, Nevil Symmons, Robert Clavel, William Crook, Charles Smith, William Cadman, and James Magnes ...
in English
- The 9th and last ed., with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.
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Sylva sylvarum: or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life.
1670, Printed by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London
in English
- 9th and last ed., with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.
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Sylva sylvarum, or, A naturall history in ten centuries: whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life.
1658, Printed by A.M. for William Lee and to be sold [by him] at the Great Turks Head ... and by Thomas Johnson ...
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- The 7th ed.
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Sylva sylvarvm: sive, Historia naturalis, in decem centurias distributa
1648, apud L. Elzevirium
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Edition Notes
"The life of ... Francis Bacon ...", "Articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals ..." and "History natural and experimental of life and death ..." have each separate paging and special t.p.; the last two dated 1669.
Errors in paging.
Gibson 179b, variant.
Wing B331A, variant.
RBSC copy: Vol. 1, port., added engr. t.p. dated 1669, dedication (prelim. p. [3-4], "Table of chief matter" ([18] p.), "His Lordships usual receipt for the gout" [1] p.) and v. 2, p. 17-22, wanting. Vol. 2, "To the reader" (prelim. p. [3-4]) bound before the text instead of before the preface to "The history of life and death". Bound in 2 vols. With two bookplates of the Earls of Derby (Edward Smith Stanley the 13th Earl, and Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, the 14th Earl [Franks 27891]?). With the autograph of James Spedding.
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