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2000mon0003816577Clarendon Press 8/24/2000 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 1.2008 8.5000 5.9016. Clarendon Press hardcover
16517580London Printed by J.F. for William Lee and are to be sold at the Great Turks Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet 1651. 1651 Folio. 12 218 26 36 8 64 p. New Atlantis and History Naturall and Experimentall with part titles. Lacking the frontispiece and the additional engraved title page. Rebound in the 1950s in half black morocco with marbled boards with some rubbing to the lower corners. Title page laid down. London, Printed by J.F. for William Lee, and are to be sold at the Great Turks Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet, hardcover
190557401Bacon's New Large-Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs. G W Bacon & Co. 1905. Map extending from Battersea New Bridge to East Dulwich and from tate Britain Gallery to Brixton prison. Lithograph. Fine condition. Mounted size: 67.5 x 49 cm Hand coloured. Size: 49.5 x 32 cm. 19½ x 12½ inches unknown
1661071612London: S.Griffin for William Lee 1661. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The Second much enlarged edition. Full leather binding quarto hardback Two volumes bound together Frontispiece 320 124 pp publisher's adverts. pagination unorthodox and not always accurate!.The second volume is the 1657 first edition Fair condition. Leather has dried and cracked original binding probably and the front board is nearly separated from the rest. <br/> <br/> S.Griffin for William Lee hardcover
17011005Y8London: Printed by E. Holt for Henry Herringman 1701. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 4.5". None. An early 18th century edition of Francis Bacon's 'Essays' issued with 'Of the Colours of Good and Evil' and his discourse on the 'Wisdom of the Ancients'. One of the several editions of Bacon's influential Essays printed by E. Holt during this period this one printed for Henry Herringman and to be sold at Timothy Childe."To this edition is added the character of Queen Elizabeth; never before printed in English".Rebacked in full stamped calf with raised bands. Though Bacon considered the Essays "but as recreation of my other studies" he was given high praise by his contemporaries even to the point of crediting him with having invented the essay form. The 19th-century literary historian Henry Hallam wrote that "They are deeper and more discriminating than any earlier or almost any later work in the English language".ESTC No.T89391The 'Table of the colours' has separate pagination; 'The wisdom of the ancients' which is translated by Sir Arthur Gorges has separate pagination and title page; register is continuous.Register: A4 B-T8 U2 X8. Collated lacking final contents leaf Y1. With seven-page catalogue of works lately printed for Timothy Child bound in. Rebacked in full stamped calf with raised bands. Externally with rubbing to the extremities resulting in loss to the boards corners. Fading to the spine and darkening to the boards. Bookplate of one William Thompson to the front paste down. Internally generally firmly bound with rear blanks at risk of detaching with further handling. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional light toning and spotting. Heavier toning to the rear blank. Good Printed by E. Holt for Henry Herringman hardcover
1638601441638. Leiden Heger & Hack 1638 12° 28 340 32 pp. Pappband d.Zt.; Anfagns wasserrandig. First Leiden Edition second edition overall. Contains a.o. the following chapters: Historia Naturalis & Experimentalis de Ventis; Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis de Forma Calidi; De Motus Sive Virtutis Activae variis Speciebus; Historia vitae et mortis. Bacon's natural history of winds and a treatise on the aging process and death forming the first 2 books of the third part of his Instauratio magna his projected systematization of scientific knowledge. "Important as collecting all the facts and theories then known on the subject and especially as the first to point out the deflexion of winds caused by the earth's rotation" Sotheran for 1st English ed. unknown
2017Atlantic-9783527412020Wiley-VCH 2017. Hardcover. New. Wiley-VCH hardcover
2017Atlantic-9783527412020Wiley-VCH 2017. Hardcover. New. Wiley-VCH hardcover
2000Q-0198123485Clarendon Press 2000-04-20. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Clarendon Press hardcover
2017BN205929Ordovas 2017. 2017. Hardcover. London Painters <br/><br/>London Painters William Paton Hrsg.; Michael Andrews; Frank Auerbach; Francis Bacon; Lucian Freud; David Hockney; R. B. Kitaj; Leon Kossoff Illustratoren; Pilar Ordovas Vorwort Ordovas hardcover
1786626L13London: John Nichols; J Fand C Rivington 1786. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 11" by 9". None. The first edition of John Bacon's editorial of Ecton's Thesaurus. This work is an account of the valuations of all ecclesiastical benefices who paid the first fruits and tenths annates. The work was originally issued in 1711 and was compiled by John Ecton. Seven editions of the work appeared between 1723 and 1796 under the title 'Liber Valorum et Decimarum'. Bacon changed the name of this work to 'Liber Regis' before making his own additions. This work has been published without any mention of Ecton. Ecton's preface remains in-tact with no revision on the part of Bacon. The Gentleman's Magazine for 1786 and 1787 discussed this plagiarism in both issues. Ecton was employed in the first-fruits department of the office of Queen Anne's Bounty where he was the receiver of the tenths of the clergy. This work is a comprehensive list of the Benefices in England and Wales that are charged with the payment of the First Fruits and Tenths. Each Diocese is presented in alphabetical order. The First Edition of Bacon's 'Editorial' of this work which has a few additions following Ecton's original work. Bacon was a British clerk and editor who spent much of his life in the first-fruits department of Queen Anne's Bounty office. ESTC No. T142990. In a full calf binding . Rebacked with the original boards preserved. Externally generally smart with patches of rubbing to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Just the odd spots to pages. Very Good Indeed John Nichols; J Fand C Rivington hardcover
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183975819New York:: Published by S. Colman 1839. First edition. publisher's blue-green embossed cloth with printed paper label on spine. Tiny 19th c. retailer's ticket on front pastedown; faint 1840 pencil inscription; some inoffensive age-toning and scattered spots not foxing to text; spine and spine label a little tanned; a very attractive copy. . 12mo. Published by S. Colman, hardcover
19002124London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1900. First edition thus. First edition thus. Arts & Crafts binding in full crushed brown morocco with elaborate gilt tooled ruling stipple pattern and floral motifs repeated on both covers gilt spine with compartments. Thick inner dentelles with gilt ruling. 272pp printed on Japan Vellum. Margins of spine slightly worn spine gilt faded else a very good copy of an attractive binding. Arthur L. Humphreys unknown
1664006897London: W. Lee Printed by J. F. and S. G. William Lee sold by Thomas Williams 1664. Full Calf. Good. Folio 29.5 by 20 cm. Engraved frontis portrait of Bacon engraved extra title page title page 14 228 title 36 title 5 62 pp. Condition: Rebacked long ago 19th century rebacking probably with spine sympathetic to original leather but clearly different. Binding with abrasions rubbing scratches -- it looks fairly heavily worn. A few tiny leather chips along joints. Joints starting. Marginal repair to extra title page more conspicuous on blank rear of leaf. Leaves generally with moderate soiling which includes dampstaining mostly but not entirely light and age toning. W. Lee (Printed by J. F. and S. G. William Lee, sold by Thomas Williams) unknown
1673D19216London: Printed by T.N. for John Martyn S. Mearne and H. Herringman 1673. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Bound in later full speckled calf professional modern rebacking. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wing B-287; Gibson 23b; ESTC R15975.3. Trimmed a little tight along the top margin but still a very handsome copy a book begging to be handled and read. <br/><br/> Printed by T.N. for John Martyn, S. Mearne, and H. Herringman hardcover
162935432London: Printed by I. H. and R. Y. and are to be sold by Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith at the Signe of the Golden Lyon in Pauls-Church-yard 1629. Hardcover. g-. Quarto. 4 232 10pp. Original full brown calf with gilt lettering on red label and tail of spine; raised bands. Illustrated title and dedication page. Decorative head tail pieces and initials. Red speckled edges. Missing pages 233-248 signatures H and I. Binding badly chipped corners bumped leather cracked. Rebacked retaining original spine. Small dealer sticker and Ex Libris Hugh Norris on inside cover. Title page age-toned starting to separate at top; shows light wear along edges. Starting after dedication page. Block with sporadic light some pages browned and few penciled notes and markings. Extensive pencil notations on back endpaper. Binding in poor interior in good condition. Francis Bacon was an English philosopher statesman scientist jurist and author. He is credited with creating empiricism a theory of knowledge based primarily on sensory experience. He established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry often referred to as the Bacon method. He was elected to the English Parliament and served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor. In 1621 his public career ended in disgrace when he was charged with 23 separate counts of corruption though he remained extremely influencial through his philosophical works and as a practitioner of the scientific method after his death. Printed by I. H. and R. Y. and are to be sold by Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, at the Signe of the Golden Lyon in hardcover
14667Bacon Peggy. LETTER TO ART YOUNG. pencil on paper 9 1/2 x 6 inches. Addressed to "Dear Art" and signed "Peggy" on stationery of the Hotel Marlton NY dated Wednesday but with the printed year "191__" not completed. Folds and a few clean short tears else in very good condition. Contained in a folder with the label of the Argosy Book Store NY inscribed "Peggy Bacon to Art Young." The letter which fills the front and back of the sheet describes what was apparently a harrowing medical incident. unknown
194275479Oakland California: Printed at the Howell-North Press 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presentation copy inscribed by Mae Helene Bacon Boggs to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Grabhorn of San Francisco on the colophon. "To celebrate the lives and deeds of the stalwart stagecoach drivers of the nineteenth century long-lived Mae Boggs 1863-1963 researched the newspaper morgue at the Bancroft Library for several years gathering all the articles she could find about Northern California stagecoaching . Many well-known persons are mentioned in these pages among them General Mariano Vallejo Robert Ingersoll and Charles Crocker along with a wide range of events and facts accidents stage robberies Chinese life crime and penalties values of horses and mules deep snow mining camps and transportation rates." Quarto: xvi 763 p. with numerous illustrations and maps some folding. Original blue cloth binding with a stagecoach blind-stamped on the front panel and gilt lettering on the spine. The spine is a trifle sun faded with some general rubbing to the boards; otherwise very good. Zamorano Select 78. Printed at the Howell-North Press hardcover
1940scaopfbSignedIt is hard to find this Author's signed name it is usually "with the author's love" or just "love" once in a while " to --- love Leonard Bacon" but just his name Leonard Bacon on the 1st leaf very very scarce but on his Pulitzer Winner! This is it one thing that would have been one of a kind would be the DJ to go with itI'm trying. Book has some fraying to the spine ends and wear to the corners but you have to look closely. Maybe some corner protectors Harper Brothers hardcover
1940SCLB2BLACK CLOTH GOLD LETTERINGDULL SPINE IS LIGHTLY FADED UNREAD VERY CLEAN NO MARKS AND SQUARE. A NICE COPY. Harper Brothers
162229700London. W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret. Good with no dust jacket. 1622. Full-Leather. Good full leather edition missing the frontispiece portrait. The hinges have had some repair but are holding. The leather has some light wear at the spine ends and corner tips. There is a Subscription Library bookplate on the inside of the front board but no other library marks. ; 8" x 11 1/2"; 248 pages . London. W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret hardcover
2004x-1405114347Blackwell Pub 2004. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 344 pages. 9.21x6.38x1.02 inches. Blackwell Pub hardcover
27046Stahel Wirceburgi 1779. Kartoniert Rundumfarbschnitt Kanten/Ecken etwas berieben leicher 4cm Laminateinriß vordere Rückenkante 379 Seiten das Buch ist akzeptabel erhalten Stahel Wirceburgi 1779 unknown
1661000852<p>London: Printed by S. Griffin for William Lee and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet at the signe of the Turks Head neer the Mitre tavern 1661. Full leather. Very Good. Folio; second edition noted in ESTC as a re-issue of the 1657 large paper edition with cancel title page and added leaf a; 22 323 2 122 2pp. In contemporary seventeenth century full leather with blind double fillets to board margins spine with five raised bands and gilt lettered red morocco spine label to second compartment binding rubbed at extremities with minor loss hinges split but binding is entirely secure Two old ownership labels to front pastedown a couple of small pencil notes to front endpapers modern ink annotation on closing free endpaper light paper browning. Complete with engraved portrait frontispiece a number of decorative woodcut headpieces and ornamental capitals final advertisement leaf and 7 separate additional title pages one each for "Speeches in Parliament Star-Chamber Kings Bench Chancery and other-where"; "Certain treatises vvritten or referring to Queen Elizabeths times:" "Severall discourses written in the dayes of King James"; "A collection of apothegmes new and old."; "Several letters written by this honourable author"; "Other letters by the same honourable authour" and "A confession of the faith:". An attractive example. ESTC R12265 <br /><br /></p> Printed by S. Griffin, for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet, at the signe of the Turks Head, neer the hardcover