Bacon, Sir Francis

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon ... Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605
paper, ink, leather

4to (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 191 x 140 mm). Woodcut initial and factototum, C4r, line 5 with variant "maniable" for "amiable"; tiny rust hole (E4v) touching one letter, light, occasional discoloration, 3H mottled, without the two added leaves of errata at the end present in some copies ("not often found" according to Gibson) and terminal blank 3H2. Eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in six compartments, tan lettering piece, edges stained red.

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Literature

STC 1164; ESTC S100507; Gibson 81; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Norman 97; Pforzheimer 36

Catalogue Note

First edition. "In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology" (Norman). It is the only work Bacon published in English.