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Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848. Hardcover. Good. . volume 2 only. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, edgewear, and soiling, fading, loss on the spine. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed.

Nabu Press, 2010-03-09. Paperback. Good.

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. Hardcover. Fair. Leather with gilt decorations and black pastedowns on spine. Edges worn and frayed, Pieces torn from spines, pastedowns chipped. Hinges broken or weak. Foxing. Small holes in page edges. Interiors tight and clean. 455, 589, 584 pp.

Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Three Volumes. A Good or slightly better set in embossed brown cloth lettered in gold of these large volumes. Mild cover wear, tanning at the outer edges of the text block, occasional foxing within. 1856 owner's name in each volume, else unmarked. The bindings are sound. (Not ex-library.)

Parry & McMillan, Philadelphia, 1859. Hardcover. Good. 3 volume set. 26 cm. Bound in contemporary calf. Hardcover. Rubbing, crack down hinge of third volume. Some scuffing. Portrait. Bookplates of J. Allison Eyster. Eyster was a prominent merchant from Baltimore and Chambersburg, PA during the Civil War.

London: William Pickering, 1834. A new edition by Basil Montagu. Complete in 16 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece and engraved leaf of script. Indices. Finely bound by F. Bedford in full calf with gilt ruling & dentelles; red and green leather gilt lettered titles labels to spines; elaborate gilt decoration to spines; marbled endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate for Frederick Walter Stephenson in each voume. Subscription Copy No. 457 slip tipped in to Volume I. Light, general wear; rear board of Volume I professionally re-attached; front joints starting to split in Volumes II, V, light foxing to front and rear blank pages in most volumes; else a near fine set. This new edition by Basil Montagu, Esq. is considered to be the definitive and most desirable edition of Bacon's works. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific… Ler mais

London: William Pickering, 1825. Complete set of sixteen volumes bound into seventeen books, the final volume being divided into two separate bindings. Full British tan calf leather with dual spine labels in brown, slighlty raised spine bands decorated in gilt, all edges speckled red, frontis engraving in volumes I, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII, folding facimile document in volume IX, books about 8.75 inches tall. Very well kept set with only light wear to extremities, some crackles to spine labels (stabilized) and a tiny chip to one label, good hinges, firm text blocks, folding plate, frontis engravings and adjacent title pages foxed, pages clean, small name stamp to upper corner inside each cover, no other names or markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

EB: William Pickering. Very Good. 1834. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Published by William Pickering London, 1825-1834. 16 volumes. Frontispieces. Bound in 3/4 leather with marble paper covered boards. Leather worn along the extremities esp at the spine. Volume I & 16 have some chipping at the joints and the crown of the spine lightly chipped. No ownership marks present. Foxing present. Text is free of marks, binding tight and solid. Bacon is credited as founder of systematic scientific thinking for the English speaking world and, with Descartes in France, stands as one of the most important scientific thinkers before Newton. "His pronouncement 'I have taken all knowledge to be my province' is the motto of his work.... Bacon made no contributions to science itself, but his insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London : printed for F.C. and J. Rivington ... [and 29 others], 1819. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copies bound in contemporary full polished aniline calf. Gilt-blocked red and green leather labels to spines, with raised bands and compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Single gilt-lined border to panels. Spine bands are slightly worn as with age. Hinges are starting in places, particularly vols. 1, 6 & 10. Light surface marks to panels. Panel edges are somewhat dulled and rubbed. Light foxing around prelims and terminals of vols. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of T. H. H. Davies, Elmley Castle with his bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Physical description: 10 v. plate (fold.) ; 22 cm. Includes folding diagram: ""The general distribution of human knowledge"" in vol. 1. Notes: English and Latin. Includes 'Index to the English part, comprised in the six first volumes' (v. 6) and… Ler mais

London: William Pickering, 1834. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+. 16 vol. For pagination, please inquire. Later (mid-nineteenth century) smooth calf with twin gilt borders on each board, gilt decorations to the boards' edges and turn-ins, spines in six compartments, a red and green morocco label lettered and decorated in gilt on each spine; all edges yellow. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by F[rancis] Bedford. With a slip tipped in, stating "Subscription Copy No. 454." Text in English and in Latin. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Bacon and a two-plate facsimile of Bacon's writing; volume two with a folding chart; volume four with a frontispiece portrait, beautifully engraved, and one additional plate; volumes five, six, and seven with a frontispiece; volume eight with a frontispiece and an additional illustration: a facsimile title page of Bacon's Opera from 1623; volume nine with a folding facsimile of a letter of Bacon's; volume ten with a facsimile title… Ler mais