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Of the advancement and proficience of learning: or The partitions of sciences IX bookes written in Latin
1640, Printed by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed: Forrest
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At head of title: Instavr. Mag. P.I.
Fully described in the Hoe catalogue, v.1, p.30-31, and in F. Madan's Oxford books, v.1, 1895, p.217.
A translation of the "De augmentis scientiarum" (first part of the Instauratio magna) which is an enlargement, translated into Latin, of the Advancement of learning, 1605.
Title-page engraved by William Marshall.
Irregularities in pagination: first group of paging, p. 11 numbered 14; second group of paging, p. 50, 55, and 90 numbered 52, 53, and 80 respectively. Following p. 280, the pagination is as follows: 209-216, 289, 291, 220-221, 294, 223, 296-330, 231, 333-352, 351-360, 561, 362-363, 356, 366-477.
A detailed description of an issue of 1640, agreeing in the main with this, is to be found in The library of William Andrews Clark, jr. Early English literature, v.4, p. 1-3.
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (STC), 1167
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