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Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences, IX bookes. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious Lord Francis Bacon

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Wats, Gilbert, d. 1657, Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1775-1851 (bookplate), Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869 (bookplate) · 1640 · Oxford, Printed by L. Lichfield, for R. Young & E. Forrest · 24 pictures

A 1640 Oxford edition of Francis Bacon's nine-book treatise on the advancement of learning, translated from Latin by Gilbert Wats and printed by L. Lichfield for R. Young and E. Forrest, a scholarly volume on science and logic. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, mostly large capitals filled with interlaced scrolls, leaves, flowers and fleshy foliage, which a designer could borrow for display letters, chapter openers or pattern work.

Science · Logic

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