The Essays of Bacon.
London: Humphreys, 1907. Rubricated title. 323 pages, 12mo, untrimmed, top edge gilt. Full black crushed morocco, ornately gilt spine and covers. London: Humphreys. Near fine. Early ownership name on fly-leaf. More
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Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings
New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1968. 20 tipped-in color plates (plates 10 and 18 are each three panels). Introductory essay by Lawrence Gowing. 66 pages. Slim 4to, pictorial wrappers, printed mylar dust wrapper (torn on rear cover; edges curled). New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1968. A very good(-) copy. More
Retrospecktive
Basil: Galerie Beyeler, 1987. Frontispiece, plus 32 color plates, some folding, plus photographs of the artist & his studio. Text in German. Thin 4to, pictorial wrappers with printed acetate over-wrap. Basil: Galerie Beyeler. 1987. Fine. More
Summi Angliae Cancellarii, Novum Organum Scientiarum
Venitiis: Girardi, 1762. 8vo, old vellum, spine labels torn & rubbed. Venetiis: Girardi, 1762. First Venetian Edition. Old library stamp on p.99, otherwise clean, with only minimal light foxing. More
The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall.
New York: Heritage, 1944. Decorated initials throughout. 190 pages. Slim 4to, cloth-backed decorative boards, dust wrapper slipcase (sturdy but worn on spine). New York: The Heritage Press, 1944. A fine copy, complete with original onionskin wrapper. More
The Essayes; or Counsels Civil & Morall.
Norwalk: Easton, 1980. Frontispiece portrait. 190pp. Short slim 4to, gilt-stamped brown leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1980). Small whitish stain on cover, otherwise fine. More
Sylva Sylvarum, Sive Historia naturalis...a Francisco Bacono. Latio transscripta a Iabobo Grutero.
Leiden: Fransciscum Hackium, 1648. Thick 16mo, old leather; professionally re-backed to match, red leather spine label. Leiden: Fransciscum Hackium, 1648. Very good. Old stamp on title page. Very good copy of the first Latin edition (printed the same year by Elzevir). More
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. To which is prefixed a life of the author, by Mr. Mallet.
London: Millar, 1753. 3 volumes, thick folios, copper engraved frontispieces, some light scatterd foxing, all edges gilt, rubricated titles. handsomely rebound in 1/2 brown crushed morocco, red morocco titles on ornately gilt spines, marbled boards. London: Millar, 1753. A beautiful near fine set. More
The Essays or Councils, Civil and Moral
London: E. Holt, 1701. (vi), 167 pages + 2 page table. BOUND WITH: "Of the Colours of Good and Evil; A Fragment, 114 pages. 8vo, contemporary brown leather with blind-stamped border designs on covers; neatly re-cased with similar leather spine and label. London: E. Hoit, 1701. A very good(+) copy. More
The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral, With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse of the Wisdom of he Ancients.; To Which is added in this Edition the Character of Queen Elizabeth.
London: Clark, 1706. 101 pages with Advertisement on final leaf. Small 8vo, calf-backed marbled boards, leather spine label. London: H. Clark, 1706. A clean, solid copy, the external joints rubbed and starting. More
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