[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1st issue of Bacon's posthumous unpublished writings. London: 1658

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Bacon, Sir Francis. OPUSCULA VARIA POSTHUMA, PHILOSOPHICA, CIVILIA, ET THEOLOGICA. Nunc Primum Edita. Cura & Fide Guilielmi Rawley… London: R. Danielis. 1658. 8vo. (36),216pp. Cont. paneled calf, rebacked. Title page a bit soiled and with a small repaired tear at top inner margin, but a very good copy.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first issue (with only the R. Danielis imprint). A posthumous collection of unpublished writings by Bacon, including a biography of Bacon by his editor William Rawley, treatises such as “Inquisitio De Magnete” and “Articuli Inquisitionis de Metallis & Mineralibus,” etc. Gibson (Supplement) 230b, notes that the second issue with the “for Octavian Pulleyn” in the imprint, also is identified by a comma on line 8 of the title after the word “Verulamo,” Our copy of 230a (the first issue), also contains this comma on the title, identifying a further variant not mentioned by Gibson. Wing B314 (listing only the second issue).

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