| Ref No | EFP/094/1670/46 |
| Finding Number | AQ 094/1670/46 |
| Title | Sylva sylvarum, or, A natural history : in ten centuries· Whereunto is newly added, the history natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. Published after the authors death. By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, one of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And the new Atlantis. As also the life of the right honorable Francis Bacon, never added to this book before. Written by the right honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1670 |
| Description | Life of the right honourable Francis Bacon; New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished; Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals; History natural and experimental
Printer's name from Wing CD.; With additional engraved title page (A1v); Frontis. port. = plate.; Leaf B4 is blank.; "The life of the right honourable Francis Bacon" has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed by S.G. & B.G. for William Lee," pagination and register.; "New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished." (divisional title page) begins pagination with quire A.; "Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals" has separate title page with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669." and register; text begins on p. 221.; "History natural and experimental" has separate title page, with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669.", pagination and register.; -Port., D2.3 in History natural and experimental, all supplied in photocopy; New Atlantis bound between Articles of enquiry and History natural and experimental; frayed at lower border, occasionally affecting text; MS. ink notes on blank pages; 323948.; Includes index.; Life of the right honourable Francis Bacon.; New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished.; Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals.; History natural and experimental.; Microfilm.; R9057.
The ninth and last edition, with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries. |
| Author | Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667 |
| Subject | Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works |
| Physical Description | [20], 14, 31, [1], 215, [23], 221-227, [9], 64 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 2j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : printed by J[ohn]. R[edmayne]. for William Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg, Francis Tyton, Thomas Williams, John Martin, Thomas Vere, Randolph Taylor, Henry Broom, Edward Thomas, Thomas Passenger, Nevil Symmons, Robert Clavel, William C |