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. Written by the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban

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  • 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. Written by the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban
  • Life of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon; New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished; New Atlantis. A work unfinished; Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals; History natural and experimental
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Imprint
London : printed by J[ohn]. R[edmayne]. for William Lee, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London, 1670. The ninth and last edition, with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.; ..
Added name
Cecil, Thomas, active 1630, engraver.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.
Publication year
1670
ESTC No.
R227991
Grub Street ID
100753
Description
[16], 14, 215, [29], 64, [2], 221-227, [1], 31, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 2°.
Note
Printer name from Wing

With frontis. portrait (plate) of the author

With additional engraved title page (plate), dated 1669 and signed: Tho: Cecill Sculp

"The life of the right honourable Francis Bacon" has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed by S.G. & B.G. for William Lee, ... 1670."; "History natural and experimental" has separate title page, with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669.," and separate pagination and register

"Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals" has separate register, and title page with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669."; text begins on p. 221

"New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished" (divisional title page) has separate pagination and register

One of two imprint variants of this edition.