Sylva sylvarum, or, A natural history, in ten centuries : whereunto is newly added the history natural and experimental of life and death, or The prolongation of life / published after the author's death, by William Rawley ... Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And The New Atlantis. With an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries ; Written by the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans.

The 11th ed., in which is added an epitomy of another piece of his lordship's works intitled Novum organum (being translated for the clearer understanding of his natural history) never before published in English.

London, B. Griffin, 1685.

9 p.l., 227 [i.e. 367], [1], 1 l., [2], 32 p. : incl. front. (port.) ; 30 cm.

BEIN Ih B132 +627M: Signatures: [A]1 (blank, wanting) [a]2 (front. and added engr. t.p.) 2-4B4B-V8X4Y-Z8Aa-Kk4A-C2 (C2 blank) A2B-Er.

Re-issue of the 1676 edition, with the added engraved t.p. so dated.

English

June 01, 2002