Elzevier.- Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva Sylvarum, ownership inscription "Geo: Sitwell 1677" to front free endpaper, later ink note tipped onto front free endpaper, title with small early ink reference to lower-margin, the odd spot or small stain, some very light browning to margins, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving backstrip, "Sylva" in ink manuscript to fore-edge, little rubbed, 1661; Historia Regni Henrici Septimi, small pencil purchase record of "R.W.G[ibson]" to foot of rear pastedown, front free endpaper working loose at foot, faint spotting to title, few very small marginal ink-stains, some light browning, damp-staining to lower-margin throughout but generally very light, contemporary calf, rebacked, quite worn, endpapers renewed, 1662, engraved titles, Amsterdam, ex officina Elzeviriana, [Gibson 186 & 127; Willems 1264 & 1278], 12mo (2)
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