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LARGE PAPER COPY.

INSTAURATIO MAGNA.

NOVUM ORGANUM.

Magna sive indica vera de interpretatione naturae.

Instauratio

With engraved title-page of a ship passing between two

pillars.

Large paper copy of the FIRST EDITION.

Folio. Full morocco gilt, gold lines on sides, full gilt back, g. e. London, 1620.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. V.)

£65

The Novum Organum is the most valuable of all Bacon's works, and by him the most highly valued.

"In character of expression this great work retained much of that aphoristic method found in the Essays' and some of his later works. In substance it contained the Meditations and thought of many anxious years. It fully explains his philosophic reasoning founded on the new Inductive method, and was prepared throughout with great care. It was, indeed, the study of his life, and one

has little doubt that the full accomplishment of the Instauratio' was a greater
ambition in his life than the dignity of Chancellorship and the Great Seal." (Dr.
Steeves.)
The Baconians have discovered a passage in "Love's Labours Lost" (probably
written thirty years before the above was issued) which they claim supports their
theories. It is in Act V., Scene 2:-

Bir. Abate a throw at Novum, and the whole world again
Cannot prickle out five such; take each one in his vaine.
King. The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain.

INSTAURATIO MAGNA. NOVUM ORGANUM.

Another Copy of the FIRST EDITION (ordinary paper), with engraved title-page of a ship sailing between two pillars. Folio. Mottled calf. London, 1620.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. V.)

INSTAURATIO MAGNA. NOVUM ORGANUM.

£35

FIRST EDITION. A very rare issue, having, instead of the usual engraved title of a ship sailing between two pillars,

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BACON (Sir Francis): INSTAURATIO MAGNA-continued.

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a printed title with a vignette of a medal in centre with Greek inscription in lower rim.

Londini, Apud Joannem Billium, 1620.

Bound with the " OPERUM MORALIUM ET CIVILIUM."

With engraved portraits of Bacon.

Londini, Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini, 1638.
Thick folio. Original calf gilt..

£30

OPERUM MORALIUM ET CIVILIUM, Tomus qui continet, HISTORIAM REGNI HENRICI SEPTIMI. SERMONES FIDELES. TRACTATUM DE SAPIENTIA VETERUM. DIALOGUM DE BELLO Sacro, et NOVAM ATLANTIDEM. Curâ et Fide Guilielmi Rawley. In hoc volumine, iterum excusi, includuntur TRACTATUS DE AUGMENTIS SCIENTIARUM. HISTORIA VENTORUM. HISTORIA VITÆ ET MORTIS, adjecti sunt, in Calce Operis, libri duo INSTAURATIONIS MAGNA (NOVUM ORGANUM).

calf.

With portrait of Francis Bacon.

THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Thick folio. Contemporary

London, Edward Griffin, 1638.

£15 155

THE REMAINS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, Viscount of St. Albanes, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England.

Being Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Full morocco gilt, g. c.
London, Printed by B. Alsop, 1648.

, W.

London,

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RESUSCITATIO, or, Bringing into Publick Light severall Pieces, of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, and Theological, hitherto sleeping; of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon. According to the best Corrected Coppies. Together, with his Lordships Life. By William Rawley.

With engraved portrait of Bacon.

FIRST EDITION. Folio. Original calf.

London, Printed by Sarah Griffin for William Lee, 1657.
£7 15S

The "Resuscitatio" is a collection of English pieces and translations. Each
piece has a separate title, the more important being: "A collection, of the
Felicities, of Queen Elizabeth"; "Letters, to Queen Elizabeth, King James, divers
Lords, and others"; Speeches in Parliament, Star-Chamber, Kings Bench,
Chancery and other-where ; etc.

THE TWOO BOOKES OF FRANCIS BACON. Of the profi-
cience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane.
FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Panelled calf.
London, Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605.

A few head-lines cut into.

£25

The "Advancement of Learning" is one of the landmarks of what high thought and rich imagination have made of the English Language. "It is the first great book in English Prose of Secular interest; the first book which can claim a place beside the " Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity." It contains some of Bacon's finest writings.' (R. W. Church).

THE TWOO BOOKES OF FRANCIS BACON: Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London, Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605.

THE ESSAYES OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORALL: With a Table of the Colours, of Apparances of Good and Evill, and

(Continued over)

BACON (Sir Francis): Twoo BooKES OF FRANCIS BACON-continued. their Degrees, as places of Perswasion, and Disswasion, and their severall Fallaxes, and the Elenches of them. Newly enlarged.

London, Printed by John Beale, 1639.

Together in 1 vol., small 4to. Old calf.

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86 BADGER IN THE FOX-TRAP, OR A SATYR UPON SATYRS. A Poem. 8 pp. Folio. New boards. Circa 1681.

18s

87 BAKER (Thomas). TUNBRIDGE WALKS; or, the Yeoman of Kent. A 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. Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Middle Temple-Gate, Fleet Street, 1703. £335

Thomas Baker, who flourished at the commencement of the 18th Century, was the son of an eminent attorney in London.

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.

88 BALE (John). A MYSTERYE OF INYQUYTE CONTAYNED WITHIN THE HERETYCALL GENEALOGYE OF PONCE PANTOLABUS, is here both dysclosed and confuted by John Bale.

g. c.

Woodcut title. Small 8vo. Full russia,
Emprynted at Geneva by Mychael Woode, 1545.

£5 5s

Interspersed with English Verse.

BALE (John) continued.

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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 12m0. Calf.

90 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

morocco gilt, g. e.

London, Imprinted by John Wolfe, 1593.

This was Bancroft's most notable production.

in full levant

£335

91 BANKS (John). CYRUS THE GREAT; or the Tragedy of Love. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. New boards. London, 1696.

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£225

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.

VERTUE BETRAY'D; or, Anna Bullen, a Tragedy.
FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Full straight-grain morocco gilt.
London, 1682.
£3 15s

This tragedy, on the story of Anna Boleyn, was the most successful of all
Bank's works, and held the stage until 1766.

Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, in his "Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare," draws attention to the interesting notice of the poet and Stratford-on-Avon contained in the preface::

"I say not this to derogate from those excellent Persons who, I ought to believe, have written more to please their Audiences,than themselves; but to persuade them, as Homer, and our Shakespeare did, to Immortalize the places where they were Born; and then, perhaps, I will sit down, and leave it to much abler Pens."