Lot 137
Winds & weather.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds, &c., first edition in English, printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard; and Tho. Dring at the George in Fleet-street, 1653.
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds, &c., first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, without the 8pp. advertisements as with some copies noted by Gibson, 4 ff. with partially erased ink marginalia in purple pencil, occasional spotting or light soiling, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, [Gibson 115; Wing B305], printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard; and Tho. Dring at the George in Fleet-street, 1653; and 3 other Continental editions of the same (Gibson 110a; and 2 copies of Gibson 111), 12mo (4)
Description
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds, &c., first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, without the 8pp. advertisements as with some copies noted by Gibson, 4 ff. with partially erased ink marginalia in purple pencil, occasional spotting or light soiling, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, [Gibson 115; Wing B305], printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard; and Tho. Dring at the George in Fleet-street, 1653; and 3 other Continental editions of the same (Gibson 110a; and 2 copies of Gibson 111), 12mo (4)
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