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Written for the benefit of mankind
BACON, Francis.Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici; sive interiora rerum. Accedunt faber fortunae colores boni et mali, &c.      Leyden, Franciscus Hackius, 1644. 2 works in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with two clasps, red edges. Engraved title. (2), 5-416, (3) pp. With: BACON, Francis. Sylva sylvarum, sive historia naturalis et novus atlas. Amsterdam, Ludovicus Elzevier, 1648. Engraved title. (34), 612, (40), (8), 87 pp. Fine ''Sammelband'' of two works by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, scientist and politician. Ad 1: A collection of essays of which the Elsevier 1662 edition was entirely based, copying each page, on this third edition of Franciscus Hackius. Ad 2: First Latin and first Elsevier edition of a collection of essays on scientific experiments, observations and speculations on a wide range of subjects. The last part Novus Atlas, New Atlantis, with a preface by William Rawley, is an utopian-philosophical novel showing the design of an institute devoted to the interpretation of nature for the benefit of mankind. Fine copy.- (Wormhole in first endpapers).
Ad 1: Willems 1279 (Elsevier edition 1662); Gibson 53. Ad 2: Willems 1058; Gibson 185a.
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