Bacon (Sir Francis) The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and humane, ink notes in later hand to margins, mainly to part 1, bookplate, lacks blank leaf 3H2 and final 2 errata leaves ("Most copies were evidently issued without these" (ESTC)), small silked repair to title foot, occasional trimming touching headline, minute worm-holes to upper margin, some with tiny paper repairs, eighteenth century calf with gilt dentelles, rebacked ?by F. Bedford, neat leather repairs at corners, g.e., [STC 1164; Gibson 81; Pforzheimer 36], 4to, for Henrie Tomes, 1605.*** Bacon's first published philosophical work; in this copy C4r line 5 reads "amiable".