Bacon, Sir Francis
INSTAURATIO MAGNA [NOVUM ORGANUM]. LONDON: [BILL NORTON AND] JOHN BILL, 1620
Folio (11 x 7 1/4 in.; 279 x 187 mm). Engraved title-page signed in the plate by Simon van de Passe (Johnson no. 2), woodcut headpieces and historiated initials, e3 cancelled, errata on e4r, Norton's name omitted from colophon. Contemporary calf paneled in blind, the spine in seven compartments, plain endpapers, edges sprinkled red; marginal staining to endpapers from leather turn-ins.
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Christie's London, 29 November 2000, lot 58. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch
STC 1163; ESTC 122428 ; Gibson 103b; Grolier/Horblit 8B; PMM 119