OF THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROFICIENCE OF LEARNING OR THE PARTITIONS OF SCIENCES IX BOOKES
Oxford: Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. Forrest, 1640 [1639]. First Edition in English, First Issue. Quarto, [38], 60, [14]; 352, 351-477, [21] pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in early full brown calf, blind rules to boards. Spine paneled with morocco label, gilt lettering. Some general rubbing and shelfwear, including cracking to hinges. With engraved frontispiece and title page. Some damp staining and waviness, primarily along lower edge of text block.
Front pastedown with ink name of W H Murphy-Grimshaw and small ink 'from W. Smedley £2.00!' (possibly artist William Smedley. Front free endpaper with ink name of S Shorley. portrait recto with ink name of J. Bromehead. Title page with crossed out ink name. A1r with ink name of Joseph Bromehead. Front free endpaper with missing material to upper fore corner, repaired. G3-4 with torn lower fore corner, material missing but no loss to text. Some very sparse ink and pencil marginalia. The text proper begins new pagination and register. First Issue, with the colophon dated 1639. Shelved in Case 4.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $3,000
NOTES
ESTC: S124504. Gibson 141a.
A translation, from the expansion in Latin entitled "De dignitate & augmentis scientiarum", of: Of the proficience and advancement of learning.
Bacon's "notions for a planned development of science and social organization based on scientifically ascertained facts are still relevant to what has become one of the crucial problems of the twentieth century." - PMM 119