Bacon (Sir Francis)-continued. 78 Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis de Ventes, etc. Arms in gold on sides, full gilt back, g. e. Leyden, 1638 £2 10s The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh. FIRST EDITION. Folio, original calf. London. Printed by W. Stansby, 1622. £7 7s Life and Miscellaneous Works of Rt. Hon. Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Published by W. Rawley. Small folio, calf. London, 1670. £2 15s With Portrait of Bacon-Life-a Preparatory to the History Natural and Experimental-The Charge, touching Duells-The Apology in certain imputations concerning the Earl of Essex-War with Spain-The Holy War-An Offer to King James of a Digest-Reign of Henry VIII. (each work with a separate title-page). Instauratio Magna. Novum Organum. FIRST EDITION. A very rare issue, having, instead of the usual engraved title of a ship sailing between two pillars, a printed title with a vignette of a medal in centre with Greek inscription in lower rim. Londim, Apud Joannem Billium, 1620. Together with the "Operum Moralium et Civilium." Londini, Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini, 1638. £30 Operum Moralium et Civilium, Tomus qui continet, Historiam With portrait of Francis Bacon THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Thick folio, contemporary calf. £15 15s Bacon (Sir Francis)-continued. 83 Scripta in Naturali et Universali Philosophia. With engraved frontispiece. 12mo, blue calf, fully gilt back. g. e. (modern). Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1653. £2 10s Willems, 1157. Recueil de divers oposcules et fragments latins trouvés dans les papiers de Bacon et publiés ici pour la première fois." 84 Sylva Sylvarum, sive Historia Naturalis et Novus Atlas. 12mo, blue morocco, g e. (Arms on sides). Amsterdam, Louis Elsevier, 1648. £2 10s 85 Sylva Sylvarum sive Historia Naturalis et Nova Atlantis. 18mo, calf. Amsterdam, 166. £1 1s 86 " Cited by Steevens in his edition of the Tempest. Consult too the important account of this volume and its connection with Shakespeare's plays in "Shakespeareana (Philadelphia, April, 1885). The Wisedome of the Ancients, Written in Latine by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, Baron of Verulam and Lord Chancelour of England. Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 12mo, old calf. London, Imprinted by John Bill, 1619. £27 10s Tenison, in his reference to this work, in Baconiana, says it is "a book in which the sages of former time are rendered more wise than it may be they were by so dexterous an interpreter of their fables." 87 BACON (Phannel). The Kite; an Heroi-Comical Poem. FIRST EDITION, an uncut copy on Large Paper. £1 5s 88 BADCER in the Fox-Trap, or a Satyr upon Satyrs. A Poem. 8 pp. Folio, new boards. Circa 1681. 18s 89 BAKER (George, Chirurgian). The Composition of making of the moste excellent and pretious Oil called Oleum Magistrale. First published by the commaundement of the King of Spain, with the maner how to apply it particulerly. The which Pyl cureth these disseases folowing. That is to say, Wounds, Contusions, Hargubuth that Canker, pain of the Raines, Apostumes, Hemerhoids, olde Ulcers, pain of the Joints and Gout, and indifferently all maner of diseases. A breef gathering togither of certain errours which the common Chirurgians dayly use. Very profitable and necessary for all Chirurgians & all other which are desirous to knowe the right method of curing. Faithfully gathered and translated into English by George Baker. Chirurgian. Black Letter. 12mo, old vellum London, 1574. £18 18s Contains preliminary verse by the Author's friend, the other great Elizabethan surgeon, William Clowes. "George Baker was born in 1540, the same year as William Clowes, and died in 1600. He was elected master of the Barber Surgeons' Company in 1597. In 1574, when he published his first book, Baker was attached to the household of the Earl of Oxford, and the writings of his contemporaries show that he had already attained to considerable practice in London."-(D.N.B.). The writings of Baker and Clowes are among the best of the medical writings of the Elizabethan Age, and help us to understand many allusions in Shakespeare's Plays. 90 BAKER (Sir R.). A Chronicle of the Kings of England, From the time of the Romans Government Unto the Death of King James. Whereunto is now added in this Third Edition, the Reign of King Charles I. with a continuation to the end of the year 1658. With the engraved title containing portraits of King Charles and the Author and views of London, St. Albans, York, Lincoln, etc. Folio, half caif. London, 1660. *Sidney Lee in his "Shakespeareana states: £3 10s This is an excessively rare issue. Most copies were probably destroyed in the Fire of London. Only three others are known-in the Bodleian Library (Douce Collection, B. 146), Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and Sion College, London." Contains the following passage which was altered in subsequent editions of the chronicle, many of the names of the poets were struck out, including that of Shakespeare's. Poetry was never more Resplendent, nor never more Graced; wherein Johnson, The first edition of Baker's "Chronicle" was published in 1643, the second in 1653, with additions by Phillips. It is singular that this third edition of 1660, in which the above passage first occurs, should be rare. After a somewhat extensive search in the libraries of Cambridge, Oxford, London, Dublin, Paris and elsewhere, the copies quoted are the only three that have been found. or, the Theatre Vindicated in Answer to Mr. Pryn's Histrio-Mastix: wherein his groundless Assertions against Stage-Plays are discovered, his Mistaken Allegations of the Fathers manifested, as also what he calls his Reasons, to be nothing but his Passions. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1662. £8 10s *** This Work was written by Sir Richard Baker whilst a prisoner for Debt in Fleet Prison. It was not published till after his death. "There are interesting references here to the Elizabethan Actors, Tarlton, Burbage, and Alleyn, and much good sense in the General Argument." (D.N.B.). A 92 BAKER (Thomas). Tunbridge Walks; or, the Yeoman of Kent. Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by her Majesty's Servants, by the Author of "The Humour o' the Age. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, buckram. Title margined. *** Thomas Baker, who flourished at the commencement of the 18th Century, was Tunbridge Walks" is his most celebrated Comedy. In it he has introduced a character named "Maiden," which was intended by the Author as a portraiture of himself. 93 BALE (John). The first two partes of the Actes or unchaste examples of the Englyshe Votaryes, gathered out of theyr owne legendes and chronycles by Jhon Bale, and dedicated to oure moste redoubted soueraigne Kyng Edwarde the syxte. 94 Printed in Black Letter. 12mo, calf. London, John Tisdale, 1550. £8 8s *** This work is an exposure of the Monastic system, and was written in support of the Protestants. On the second title is the following biblical quotation: 'Behold (thou Idolatrous church) I wil gather together al thy lovers, unto whom thou hast made thy lesse commen, yea, and al them whome thou savourest, and everye one that thou hatest, and will discover thy shame before them, that they all maye see thy filthinesse." Eze. xvi. The Two Parts of the Actes of English Votaries, comprehendynge their unchast practises and examples by all ages from the worldes beginning to the raygne of King Jhon. 2 vols. in 1, thick 12mo, calf. London, John Tisdale, 1560. £2 10s This is cited by Ritson in his notes on Hamlet." Bale (John)-continued. 95 A Mysterye of Inyquyte Contayned within the heretycall Genealogye of Ponce Pantolabus, is here both dysclosed and confuted by John Bale. Woodcut title. Small Svo, full russia, g. e. Emprynted at Geneva by Mychael Woode, 1545. £5 5s * Interspersed with English Verse. 96 BALFOUR (Sir Andrew). Letters, Write to a Friend, by the Learned and Judicious Sir Andrew Balfour, M.D., containing Excellent Directions and Advices for Travelling thro' France and Italy. Small 8vo, calf gilt. Edinburgh, 1700. 97 BALLADS. A North Countrie Carland. 12mo, half morocco, uncut. Edinburgh, 1824. Only 30 copies printed. £1 10s 16s 6d A collection of 16 Scottish Ballads, which, with one exception, are printed for the first time. 98 BANCROFT (Richard, Archbp. of Canterbury). Daungerous Positions and Proceedings, published and practised within this Iland of Brytaine, under pretence of Reformation, and for the Presbiteriall Discipline. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Fine copy in full levant morocco gilt, London, Imprinted by John Wolfe, 1593. g. e. 99 BANKS (John). This was Bancroft's most notable production. £3 3s £2 2s Cyrus the Great: or the Tragedy of Love. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1696. *** This play was at first forbidden, but afterwards came on and met with very good success. Downes says that Smith, having a long part in it, fell ill upon the fourth day and died. This occasioned it to be laid aside, and it was not acted afterwards. |