Bacon, Francis

Essays of Bacon

BACON, SIR FRANCIS; HENRY MORLEY (INTRODUCTION) · 0 · Bookshop Baltimore

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Fine Editions Press. Hardcover. Undated. Introduction by Henry Morley. Nameplate on endpaper. Includes the Fine Editions Club newsletter which gives a summary of the book and info on the author. Book and boards are clean, light fraying on the red cloth edges. 140 pages. G .

STUDY OF NUDE WITH FIGURE IN A MIRROR.

Bacon, Francis. · 2008 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Sotherby’s 2008. 1st Ed. Sm. Slim 4to. [32]pp. Illus. throughout in colour and b/w. Very good in coloured pictorial limp card wrapps. lettered in gilt to upper wrapp.

The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh

Bacon, Francis · 1971 · Barter Books Ltd

£14.60 (€17.50 | $19.29 | ¥3,080)

G : in good condition with pale blue slipcase. Spine slightly scuffed London The Folio Society First FS Edition 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 256pp + plates. 13 plates (1 in colour).

Opera Omnia. The Works of the Lord Bacon. 4 volume set. 1730

Bacon, Francis · 1730 · Barter Books Ltd

£760.00 (€910.97 | $1,004.01 | ¥160,327)

G: in good condition. Covers rubbed. Hinges cracked London R Gosling First edition thus 330mm x 210mm (13" x 8"). [vi], 224pp, [viii], 394pp, [xxxviii]; 564pp, [xxxii]; [iv], 586pp, [xliv]; 707pp, [xxix]. Very heavy set significant extra shipping needed for overseas.

Sylva Sylvarum : Or, a Naturall History. In Ten Centuries; Whereunto is Newly Added the History Naturall and Experimentall of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life.

Bacon Francis · 1658 · George Jeffery Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.74 | ¥67,506)

London, printed by A.M. for William Lee 1658. Book measures 11 1.4 x 7 1/2 inches, [ 29x19mm ]. Complicated collation, engraved frontis and title page, plus printed title page, engraved title page dated 1651, printed title dated 1658, [16],218pp,table of chief matters, [19pp]...

Lord Bacon&Apos;S Essays

Francis Bacon · 1819 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.84 | ¥31,433)

London, John Sharpe, 1819 . Leather. A charming, pocket-sized volume containing a collection of Francis Bacon's moral, political and economical essays. Bound in full calf, with the boards rebacked. With a vignette illustration to the title page. A collection of the essays...

Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

[Francis Lord Verulam] Francis Bacon · 1840 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London , William Pickering, 1840. Cloth. A detailed copy of Bacon's Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Edited by B. Montagu. Adorned with a beautifully engraved title page. Containing the original publishers' advertisements to the start of the work, and ...

A Conference of Pleasure

Francis Bacon; James Spedding [ed.] · 1870 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1870 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce privately printed first edition of James Spedding's edition of Francis Bacon's fascinating essay on the role of pleasure in human life. The vanishingly scarce privately published first edit...

Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon

Francis, Lord Bacon; John Buchan [ed.] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Walter Scott, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Buchan's first published work, a collection of Francis Bacon's essays and apothegms. The first edition, first impression of this work, with the books listed in the advertisements to the rear...

Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Lord Verulam; Francis Bacon · 1840 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, William Pickering, 1840. Leather. A Hayday bound edition of one of the important works by Francis Bacon. Bound by Hayday. 'Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning' was first published in 1605, a philosophical work by Francis Bacon discussing education...

The Essays of Francis Bacon Lord Verulam (the Books of the Verulam Club)

Francis Bacon · 1910 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.36 | ¥16,666)

London, Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1910. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of Francis Bacon's highly regarded essays. A bright copy of Francis Bacon's essays, which cover topics drawn from both public and private life and are written in a wide range of styles.Bound in a r...

The Charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight

Francis Bacon · 1614 · Rooke Books

£6,000.00 (€7,191.85 | $7,926.37 | ¥1,265,741)

London, Robert Wilson, 1614. Disbound. A very scarce first edition of this important treatise by Francis Bacon. Here Bacon highlights his stance against duels, which he deemed to be against the will of God. This work was published as a part of James I's anti-dueling campa...

Bacon&Apos;S Essays and Colours of Good and Evil

Francis Bacon; W. Aldis Wright · 1896 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London; New York, Macmillan and Co. Ltd.; Macmillan and co. 1896. Leather. A very smart full calf binding of Francis Bacon's historic writings. A handsome copy, bound in full brown calf, with intricate gilt tooling and green morocco labels to spine. gilt doublures, marble...

Seven Volumes from the Elizabethan Library the Poet of Poets a Cabinet of Gems a Bower of Delights Thoughts That Breath Choice Passages Green Pastures Brave Translunary Things

Ben Johnson; Robert Greene; Nicholas Breton; Walter Raleigh; Francis Bacon; George MacDonald; Edmund Spencer · 1893 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, Elliot Stock, 1893-95. Cloth. Seven volumes from the Elizabethan Library series in the original green fleur-de-lis cloth. A seven volume set from the 'Elizabethan Library' series. In the original publisher's green cloth with a gilt fleur-de-lis pattern....

Historia Vitae Et Mortis

Francis Bacon · 1637 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Not Stated, Lugduni Batavorum; Joannis Mairs, 1637. Vellum. An early edition of this influential medical treatise on prolonging life by Francis Bacon, a sought after work by the important Tudor figure. In the original Latin.Register runs as *-******6, A-Q6, R4, T-Nn6, Oo10. C...

The Essays, or Councils, CIVIL and Moral

Sir Francis Bacon · 1701 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Printed by E. Holt for Henry Herringman, 1701. Leather. An early 18th century edition of Francis Bacon's 'Essays', issued with 'Of the Colours of Good and Evil' and his discourse on the 'Wisdom of the Ancients&apos. One of the several edit...

Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning; or the Partitions of Sciences: IX Bookes

Francis Bacon · 1640 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

[London], [printed by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young], 1640. First edition. Leather. The first English translation of this seminal philosophical text by Francis Bacon. The first English translation. A foundational text on the scientific method, with...

On Gardens: Two Essays

Francis Bacon; Abraham Cowley · 1910 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Siegle, Hill & Co. 1910. Paperback. A scarce work of two charming essays on gardens, for the Astolat Oakleaf Series. Scarce work. Astolat Oakleaf Series. Two charming and lyrical essays on gardens from Francis Bacon, an English philosopher and statesman whose work rema...

Opuscula Varia Posthuma Philosophica Civilia Et Theologica Francisci Baconi

Francis Bacon · 1658 · Rooke Books

£2,275.00 (€2,726.91 | $3,005.41 | ¥479,927)

London, R Danielis, 1658 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound, first edition copy of this important collection of posthumously published essays by Sir Francis Bacon. The first edition and the first publication of this work.Entirely in the original Latin.This work has b...

Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon · 1836 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Charles Tilt , 1836. Cloth. A very scarce miniature copy of the first published work from philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon. A very scarce miniature edition of Francis Bacon's highly praised essays.Published as part of 'Tilt's Miniature Classical L...