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(Sir Francis) The Two Bookes...of the Proficience

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(Sir Francis) The Two Bookes...of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane, first edition, both errata ff. present (often missing), woodcut initials, second errata f. lacking lower half, light damp-staining, affecting some text, ink inscriptions to title, 3H1 becoming loose, ?lacking final blank, contemporay vellum, joints detached, rubbed and soiled, [Gibson 81; STC 1164; Grolier 100 8a], small 4to, for Henrie Tomes, 1605.

***The 'preparative or key for the opening of the instauration' (Grolier/Horblit) with both of the rare errata leaves. 'In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology' (Norman)..

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