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

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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. 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
  • 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 VVilliam 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 Crook, and James Magnes; and other booksellers in London and Westminster, 1670. The ninth and last edition, with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.; ..
Added name
Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.
Publication year
1670
ESTC No.
R9057
Grub Street ID
129174
Description
[20], 14, 31, [1], 215, [23], 221-227, [9], 64 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 2°.
Note
Variant: title has "Liee and death"

Printer's name from Wing CD

With an additional title page, engraved (A1v), signed "Tho: Cecill sculp:". The imprint reads "London printed for W: Lee and are to be sould at the Great Turks head next to the Mytre Tauerne in Fleetstreet anno 1669"

Frontis. port. = plate

"The life of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon" has separate pagination, register, and dated title page with imprint "printed by S.G. & B.G. for William Lee"

"New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished" (divisional title page) begins new pagination with quire A

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

"History natural and experimental" has separate pagination, register, and title page with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669."

Includes index

One of two imprint variants of this edition.