[Rarebooks] FS: 4 separate works of Sir Francis Bacon bound together. 1629-1725

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Bacon, Sir Francis. CERTAINE MISCELLANY WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,
FRANCIS LO. VERULAM, VISCOUNT S. ALBANS. Published by William Rawley...
London: Printed by J. Haviland for Humphrey Robinson. 1629. Sm. 4to. 4
parts in 1, each with its own title page. (8),166pp. Each text page
within a printed ruled border. Woodcut printer’s device on each section
title. Lacking A1 which is blank. BOUND WITH: [Gordon, Thomas].
FRANCIS, LORD BACON: OR, THE CASE OF PRIVATE AND NATIONAL CORRUPTION,
AND BRIBERY... Address’d to All South-Sea Directors... London: Printed
for J. Roberts. 1721. xvi,62pp. BOUND WITH: Bacon, Francis, defendant.
A COLLECTION OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AGAINST THE
LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS... FOR CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY...
Together with the Judgment Given... A.D. 1620. London: Printed for A.
More. N.d. (but circa 1721). 32pp. BOUND WITH: Wrenham, John. A
VINDICATION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR BACON, from the Aspersion of
Injustice Cast Upon Him by Mr. Wraynham... London: Printed for J.
Peele. 1725. (4),64pp. With the half-title. The four works bound
together in early 19th c. full red morocco, tan calf spine labels.
Spine & hinges a bit rubbed.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
I. First edition & quite scarce. The four parts are: 1. Considerations
Touching  a Warre with Spaine; II. An Advertisement Touching an Holy
Warre; III. An Offer to Our Late Soveraigne King James, of a Digest to
Be Made of the Lawes of England; IV. The History of the Reigne of King
Henry the Eighth. STC #1124.
II. First edition (of 7 in 1721). Kress 3383; Sabin 25455; Gibson 41.
III. The third edition? (Gibson is vague). Gibson 549b; Goldsmith 5970.
IV. Gibson 627. OCLC lists 3 copies.

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