Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries; Whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life. / Both written by the Right Honorable Francis lo. Verulam viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Rawley ... Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the ten centuries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Contributor:

Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.

Standardized Title:

Sylva sylvarum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Penn Provenance:

Peppercorn, Peter (autograph)

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered pages, 218 pages, 26 unnumbered pages, 36 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 64 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 30 cm (folio)

Edition:

The seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for William Lee and are to be sold by Thomas Williams ... and William Place ..., 1658.

Notes:

Added t.-p., engraved: Tho. Cecill sculp. London, 1651.

After the Table of the experiments (sig. [A4-a3]) a list of Books printed for William Lee" [and others] 4 columns on 1 leaf (sig. [a4])

Appended: (1) His Lops. vsual receipt for the gout, to which the sixtieth experiment hath reference. 1 l. (verso blank) (2) New Atlantis. A Work unfinished. [n.p., n.d.] (3) History natural and experimental of life and death. 1658.

Includes also his "New Atlantis," with special t.p. and separate pagination.

"History natural and experimental of life and death" (64 p. at end) has special t.-p. with imprint : London : Printed for William Lee and Humphrey Moseley, 1658.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) B328

Gibson, R. W. Francis Bacon 177b

Contains:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. New Atlantis.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. History natural and experimental of life and death.

OCLC:

14304459