[20] pages, 1324 columns, [31] pages : 36 cm (fol.)

St. John's Seminary Library ; loan ;

In 9 pts., each with special t.p. dated 1664. Gilbert 235 (Italic headlines) has the date on the last sectional t.p. (3G3) misprinted MDCLXVIII

With a half title

Two settings of type are noted, with the same pagination and signatures, and the same lineation on the t.p. Gilbert 235 has Italic type headlines, and Gilbert 236 has Roman type headlines. There are also differences in the plates of the printer's device, above the imprint on the t.p. in each edition See Gilbert

Signatures:):(⁶ chi1 A-2I⁶ 2K-2M⁴ 2N⁸

Last [3] p. blank

Title-page printed in red an black, with engraved printer's device

Each sectional t.p. has (the same) woodcut ill

Portrait of Bacon is on the verso of the half title

(from sectional title pages) [1] ... De dignitate & augmentis scientiarum, lib. IX., sive Instaurationis magnae, pars prima. -- [2] ... Novum organum scientiarum sive Indicia vera de interpretatione naturae -- [3] ... Phoenomena universi, sive Historia naturalis & experimentalis de ventis -- [4] ... Historia vitae et mortis -- [5] ... Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia ... -- [6] ... Sylva sylvarum, sive Historia naturalis -- [7] ... Historia Regni Henrici Septimi, Angliae regis. Opus vere politicum -- [8] ... Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici, sive, Interiora rerum, accedunt faber fortunae, colores boni et mali, &c. -- [9] ... Sapientia veterum liber, ad inclytam Academiam Cantabrigiensem

Index: p. [1]-[29] at end

"Bibliopola ad lectorum," p. [13], 1st group

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