BACON Sir Francis, Viscount St. Alban
£320
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The historie of life and death with observations naturall and experimentall for the prolonging of life ... 1st edition of the unauthorised translation, 1 leaf with imprimatur, engraved titlepage, pp. [x], 323, verso blank, contemporary calf, rebacked, later pastedowns, repairs to margins of the engraved titlepage, early ownership inscription on the printed titlepage, small wormhole in the margins of the first few signatures, 12mo., London: I. Okes for Humphrey Mosley, 1638
Note: Gibson 153; STC 1157. Not in Garrison & Morton. The translator is unknown (Gibson). An authorised translation by William Rawley appeared later in the same year.