Lot 37
  • 37

Bacon, Sir Francis

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • De Sapientia Veterum Liber, Ad Inclytam Acadamiam Cantabrigiensem. London: Robert Barker, 1609
  • ink, vellum
12mo (5 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.; 133 x 75 mm).  Woodcut headpiece and ornament on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, printer's ornaments, text within rules, lower endpaper annotated in a contemporary hand with the first four lines of Sir Philip Sidney's "Thou Blind Man's Mark"; right margins shaved, sometimes cutting into border, mild marginal dampstaining. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine; vellum cockled, soiled, and age-darkened, endpapers torn and creased, ties perished.

Provenance

Bonhams, 13 May 2003, lot 454. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

STC 1127; ESTC S101690; Gibson 85

Condition

12mo (5 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.; 133 x 75 mm). Woodcut headpiece and ornament on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, printer's ornaments, text within rules, lower endpaper annotated in a contemporary hand with the first four lines of Sir Philip Sidney's "Thou Blind Man's Mark"; right margins shaved, sometimes cutting into border, mild marginal dampstaining. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine; vellum cockled, soiled, and age-darkened, endpapers torn and creased, ties perished.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, with the initial blank.