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‎BACON, R.‎

‎PERSPECTIVA. IN QUA, QUAE AB ALIIS FUSE TRADUNTUR, SUCCINCTE, NERVOSE & ITA PERTRACTANTUR, UT OMNIUM INTELLECTUI FACILE PATEANT. NUNC PRIMUM IN LUCEM EDITA. OPERA & STUDIO IOANNIS COMBACHII. FRANKFURT, WOLFFGANG RICHTER, FOR ANTONIUS HUMMIUS, 1614.‎

‎4to. Modern blank boards, red painted edges. With 8 full-page woodcut plates on both sides of four lvs. outside collation, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations on perspective in text, several full-page. (8), 189 (=205), (1 blank) pp. First edition of a very famous scientific work of the English mediaeval natural philosopher and mathematician Roger Bacon (ca. 1220-ca. 1292). Bacon studied at Oxford and Paris, and from 1241 to 1246 he lectured at Paris about the works of Aristotle. After his return to Oxford Bacon met Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168-1253), and was greatly influenced by the latter's works. This is especially to be noticed in Bacon's writings on optics. Bacon considered mathematics of prime importance for all natural sciences, and he was much in favour of experimental science. Bacon's work on perspective is here edited from the manuscript by Johann Combach (1585-1651), professor of philosophy at Marburg in Germany. It belonged to Bacon's "Opus Maius", compiled in manuscript 1266-1267. The "Opus Maius" is the only part of his manuscripts so far published, first at London in 1733, while Bacon's "Opus Minus" and "Opus Tertium" still remain in manuscript today. Bacon's main sources for his theories on optics and perspective were Euclid, Ptolemy, and Alhazen, and he followed Grosseteste in his emphasis on the use of lenses, not only for burning, but also for magnification, to aid natural vision. Bacon adviced magnifying glasses for old people as well as for people with weak eyes. But like his famous colleague Albertus Magnus, whom Bacon had met when in Paris, he became also very popular as an alchemist and expert of secret knowledge. Good copy of a rare work.- (Boards sl. waterst.; stains of title and blank verso of last leaf from removing old stamps). STC German, 17th Century, B 53; Poggendorff I, 468; Vagnetti DB5 ("Opus Maius" Vol. V, London, 1733, Venice 1750, etc.); DSB I, pp. 377-384; cf. Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 26, 211, and 269.‎

Bookseller reference : 6937

‎LEWIS, SINCLAIR, ROBERT NATHAN & PEGGY BACON‎

‎Off With Their Heads! By Peggy Bacon‎

‎Robert M. McBride & Company unknown New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934. First Edition. A collection of caricatures of notables of the period drawn by Peggy Bacon, each accompanied by a portrait in words. Included are Sinclair Lewis and Robert Nathan. This is a remarkable book, the personal copy of novelist Robert Nathan (best remembered for his novels, A Portrait of Jennie, and, The Bishop's Wife) which has been humorously and sometimes caustically annotated by his friend, Sinclair Lewis. On the half-title, Nathan has signed the book and has written in ink: "Robert Nathan's copy - with notes by Sinclair Lewis." At a number of points in the book Lewis has written in bold pencil, in his distinctive hand, his comments on the book. On the printed dedication page which reads: "Dedicated to The Faces I Love." Lewis has underlined the word "Love", added a question mark, then has written: "whom she loveth she raiseth hell with. Good Book. II Corinthians IV: 23." At the two pages containing Bacon's portraits of Sinclair Lewis he has written: "OK, Sinclair Lewis." One of the two portraits of Lewis, shows him composing at his typewriter, and this excellent image is the one Bacon chose to reproduce on the front of the dust jacket. At the two images of Robert Nathan, Lewis apparently had the notion that Bacon made Nathan look like former President Calvin Coolidge. Nathan has written in ink: "Sinclair Lewis wrote these indignant denials." At the heading which reads "Robert Nathan" Lewis has crossed it out and written instead: "C. Coolidge (Ex. - Hon. Esq - L.L.D Hon Beloit)." Next to the large Nathan portrait, Lewis has written as dialogue coming from the portrait: "I do not c------." which is a take off on Coolidge's famous line about again seeking the Presidency: "I do not care to run." At the place where Bacon describes her caricature she in one line states that Nathan: "Suggests the cadaverous spirituality of an apostle by Greco." Lewis has crossed out the word "Greco" and has written in replacement "Will Hays," the name of the censorship czar of the motion picture industry. At the ending two-page spread showing the two self-portrait caricatures of Peggy Bacon, he has crossed out her self-portrait in words and has written "See next page." On the following leaf, Lewis has written a full new word portrait and initialed it: "Peggy Bacon - Demure, innocent in seeming only - - licking the cream of celebrity, gulped like mackerel, from her lips - electric of whiskers. A dangerously accurate female - - except in draughtsmanship. SL." Among the other celebrities depicted in the book are Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Thompson (Lewis' wife), Childe Hassam, George Gershwin, Carl Sandburg, Lillian Gish, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Bill Robinson, Djuana Barnes, Edmund Wilson, etc. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some chipping.‎

Bookseller reference : 12990J ISBN : 0

‎BACON, R.‎

‎SPECULA MATHEMATICA: IN QUA, DE SPECIERUM MULTIPLICATIONE, EARUNDEMQUE IN INFERIORIBUS VIRTUTE AGITUR. LIBER OMNIUM SCIENTIARUM STUDIOSIS APPRIME UTILIS, EDITUS OPERA & STUDIO IOHANNIS COMBACHII. FRANKFURT, WOLFFGANG RICHTER FOR ANTONIUS HUMMIUS, 1614.‎

‎4to Later mottled calf, gilt spine divided in 6 compartments. Numerous woodcut geometrical figures in text. (8), 83, (1 blank) pp. First edition of one of the most important scientific works by the mediaeval natural philosopher and mathematician Roger Bacon (ca. 1220-ca. 1292). He studied at Oxford and Paris, and from 1241 to 1246 Bacon lectured at Paris on part of Aristotle's works. When he returned to Oxford he was greatly influenced by Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168-1253), from whose works Bacon heavily borrowed, especially in his writings on optics. Bacon considered mathematics of prime interest for all natural sciences, and he favoured experimental sciences. The <I>Specula Mathematica </I>belonged to Bacon's <I>Opus Maius</I>, the only part of his works so far published, first at London in 1733, while Bacon's<I> Opus Minus </I>and <I>Opus Tertium r</I>emain until today in manuscripts. Like his famous colleague Albertus Magnus, with whom Bacon had met when at Paris, Roger Bacon became also very popular as an alchemist. The German editor, Johann Combach (1585-1651), was professor at the University of Marbach. Good copy of a rare work.- (Ms. notes in ink on title; sl. browned). Poggendorff I, 468; DSB I, pp. 377-384, incl. bibliography on p. 384; cf. Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 26, 211, and 269.‎

Bookseller reference : 18201

‎BACON FRANCIS‎

‎OF THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROFICIENCE OF LEARNING OR THE PARTITIONS OF SCIENCES‎

‎Printed by Leonard Lichfield hardcover Oxford: . FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE EXPANDED VERSION Second Issue with colophon dated and an engraved but not a printed title page. A bit of wear to extremities spine rather darkened with most of the gilt lost covers slightly marked and abraded hinges cracked but the boards firmly attached on the original tapes and the unsophisticated binding generally in agreeable condition without any fatal defect. Flyleaf at back lacking a couple of leaves missing corners no text affected two leaves only with light purple flecks the volume otherwise not at all affected by damp blank recto of first leaf and verso of last leaf a bit soiled additional trivial imperfections otherwise a fine copy internally the text clean and quite fresh. Oxford: . 275 x 190 mm. 11 x 7 1/2". Translated from the Latin by Gilbert Wats. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bacon writing at his desk and appealing engraved title page showing among other things the Visible World and the World of the Intellect shaking hands in the clouds; engraved head- and tailpieces and foliated three-line initials throughout. Front pastedown with the engraved book label of Michael Ernest Sadler of University College Oxford see below; front flyleaf with embossed library stamp of Edwin M. Eckard; notes in a neat contemporary hand on the front flyleaf and occasionally in the margins. Gibson 141b; STC 1167.3; Lowndes I 95. This is a pleasing contemporary copy of the first printing in English of the complete i.e. expanded edition of one of the most significant scientific books of the period. This epistemological work was first issued in English in a shorter version in 1605 STC 1164 and the original text reappeared in 1629 and in 1633 STC 1165 1166. Bacon enlarged the work and published it in Latin in 1623 with the title De Augmentis Scientiarum STC 1108; this version was then turned into English by Gilbert Wats and published in the form found in the present volume. The Augmentis was the first part of Bacon's Instauratio Magna or Great Renewing a vast project in which Bacon undertook nothing short of the organizing and promulgating of all human knowledge. Although the Instauratio was originally planned to appear in six parts only the De Augmentis Scientiarum and a second part Novum Organum or new instrument were published. Of the present book Norman says While preserving the traditional distinction between knowledge obtained by divine revelation and knowledge acquired through the senses Bacon saw both theoretical and applied science as religious duties the first for a greater knowledge of God through his creation and the second for the practice of charity to one's fellows by improving their condition. This view of science as a religious function maintained its authority throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries and was an important factor in the public success of the scientific movement. PMM says that Bacon's insistence on making science experimental and factual rather than speculative and philosophical had powerful consequences. . . . As a philosopher Bacon's influence on Locke and through him on subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics was profound. Our translation by the clergyman Wats d. 1657 was the signal achievement in a life that included study at Lincoln College Oxford and a position as rector of Willingale Doe from 1642-47. Our volume was owned by another Oxonian Sir Michael Ernest Sadler master of University College Oxford chairman of the Sadler Commission on Indian Education and father of writer literary historian and noted book collector Michael Sadleir who according to DNB adopted an early variant of the family name . . . as a nom de plume. Not at all displeasing period calf covers with blind ruled borders raised bands spine gilt in compartments featuring scrolling volutes in the corners framing delicate central fleuron 17th century but apparently not original endpapers at front.‎

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‎[BACON Francis]‎

‎Francis Bacon by Francis Giacobetti‎

‎Christie's unknown London: . Fine. Quarto. Prospectus for the book only black heavy stock portfolio lined in red With original DVD presenting excerpts from the book and the making of the book "Francis Bacon was the most forceful and individual figurative painter of the second half of the 20th century. Rightly measuring himself against Picasso he developed a unique and powerful visual cry that was the greatest pictorial outburst of its time. His scream -his art- is profound clear free of any illustions or sentimental echoes. When asked the question: "Do you feel in danger of death when you paint" Bacon replied: "I just become very nervous. You know Ingres used to cry for hours before starting a painting." This book is more than a book. It is a magnificent celebration of Bacon's scream. A scream that has been transformed into an object one that is lavish and rare. Here is a book conceived by one artist Francis Giacobetti as a homage to another artst Francis Bacon. Their encounter was as profound as it was predestined. The result is a radical multi-faceted confrontation with Bacon and his art the cry of one soul the symbolic cry of manking." -from the introduction.This is the lavish prospectus for the book to be released in being a collaboration between several countries finest artisans. The prospectus contains a DVD which is an experience in itself and is magnificent .‎

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‎[BACON Francis]‎

‎Francis Bacon by Francis Giacobetti‎

‎Christie's unknown London: Christie's, 2006. Fine. Quarto. Prospectus for the book only black heavy stock portfolio, lined in red With original DVD presenting excerpts from the book and the making of the book "Francis Bacon was the most forceful and individual figurative painter of the second half of the 20th century. Rightly measuring himself against Picasso, he developed a unique and powerful visual cry that was the greatest pictorial outburst of its time. His scream -his art- is profound, clear, free of any illustions or sentimental echoes. When asked the question: "Do you feel in danger of death when you paint?" Bacon replied: "I just become very nervous. You know, Ingres used to cry for hours before starting a painting." This book is more than a book. It is a magnificent celebration of Bacon's scream. A scream that has been transformed into an object, one that is lavish and rare. Here is a book conceived by one artist, Francis Giacobetti, as a homage to another artst, Francis Bacon. Their encounter was as profound as it was predestined. The result is a radical, multi-faceted confrontation with Bacon and his art, the cry of one soul, the symbolic cry of manking." -from the introduction. This is the lavish prospectus for the book to be released in 2006, being a collaboration between several countries finest artisans. The prospectus contains a DVD which is an experience in itself and is magnificent .‎

Bookseller reference : 24736 ISBN : 0

‎BACON, FRANCIS‎

‎OF THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROFICIENCE OF LEARNING OR THE PARTITIONS OF SCIENCES‎

‎Printed by Leonard Lichfield hardcover Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1640. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE EXPANDED VERSION, Second Issue (with colophon dated 1640 and an engraved, but not a printed, title page).. A bit of wear to extremities, spine rather darkened, with most of the gilt lost, covers slightly marked and abraded, hinges cracked, but the boards firmly attached on the original tapes, and the unsophisticated binding generally in agreeable condition, without any fatal defect. Flyleaf at back lacking, a couple of leaves missing corners (no text affected), two leaves (only) with light purple flecks (the volume otherwise not at all affected by damp), blank recto of first leaf and verso of last leaf a bit soiled, additional trivial imperfections, otherwise a fine copy internally, the text clean and quite fresh.. Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1640. 275 x 190 mm. (11 x 7 1/2"). Translated from the Latin by Gilbert Wats. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bacon writing at his desk and appealing engraved title page showing, among other things, the Visible World and the World of the Intellect shaking hands in the clouds; engraved head- and tailpieces and foliated three-line initials throughout. Front pastedown with the engraved book label of Michael Ernest Sadler of University College, Oxford (see below); front flyleaf with embossed library stamp of Edwin M. Eckard; notes in a neat contemporary hand on the front flyleaf and occasionally in the margins. Gibson 141b; STC 1167.3; Lowndes I, 95. This is a pleasing contemporary copy of the first printing in English of the complete (i.e., expanded) edition of one of the most significant scientific books of the period. This epistemological work was first issued in English in a shorter version in 1605 (STC 1164), and the original text reappeared in 1629 and in 1633 (STC 1165, 1166). Bacon enlarged the work and published it in Latin in 1623 with the title De Augmentis Scientiarum (STC 1108); this version was then turned into English by Gilbert Wats and published in the form found in the present volume. The Augmentis was the first part of Bacon's Instauratio Magna, (or Great Renewing), a vast project in which Bacon undertook nothing short of the organizing and promulgating of all human knowledge. Although the Instauratio was originally planned to appear in six parts, only the De Augmentis Scientiarum and a second part, Novum Organum (or new instrument), were published. Of the present book, Norman says, While preserving the traditional distinction between knowledge obtained by divine revelation and knowledge acquired through the senses, Bacon saw both theoretical and applied science as religious duties, the first for a greater knowledge of God through his creation, and the second for the practice of charity to one's fellows by improving their condition. This view of science as a religious function maintained its authority throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was an important factor in the public success of the scientific movement. PMM says that Bacon's insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences. . . . As a philosopher Bacon's influence on Locke and through him on subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics was profound. Our translation by the clergyman Wats (d. 1657) was the signal achievement in a life that included study at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a position as rector of Willingale Doe from 1642-47. Our volume was owned by another Oxonian, Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, master of University College, Oxford, chairman of the Sadler Commission on Indian Education, and father of writer, literary historian, and noted book collector Michael Sadleir (who, according to DNB, adopted an early variant of the family name . . . as a nom de plume). Not at all displeasing period calf, covers with blind ruled borders, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments featuring scrolling volutes in the corners framing delicate central fleuron, 17th century (but apparently not original) endpapers at front.‎

Bookseller reference : ST11462a-009 ISBN : 0

‎Bacon Francis; Northup Clark Sutherland edited with introduction and notes‎

‎The Essays of Francis Bacon (Riverside College Classics)‎

‎Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket with very minimal edge bump & mild page ridge tone beautiful clean copy overall very good. 227 pp. "Francis Bacon 1st Viscount St Alban KC 22 January 1561 a!! 9 April 1626 son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne Cooke Bacon was an English philosopher statesman scientist lawyer jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace he remained extremely influential through his works especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Indeed his dedication may have brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments. His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry often called the Baconian method or simply the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today. Bacon was knighted in 1603 created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death." - Wikipedia‎

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‎Bacon Francis‎

‎The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral...With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. Whereunto is added The Wisdom of the Antients‎

‎[4],254,[12],31,[15],131[1]p. hardcover A2B-F8.Missing blank F8 as in all copies.: London:. Contemp. mottled calf gilt rules on covers gilt spine in compartments title on red leather label lacks first compartment at head hinges crackedmarbled edges; engraved port. cut to margins and laid-down with small edge stain not in image. T. N. for John MartynS. Mearne & H. Herringman. Engraved port. of Bacon inserted from 1668 edition. Of Bacon's literary as distinct from his philosophical and professional works far the most popular and important are the OEssays.O The title of OEssaysO is probably taken from the OEssaisO of Montaigne who is quoted by name in the first essay which first appeared at Bordeaux in 1580. Hallam says of these that they are the first writings in the French language Owhich a gentleman is ashamed not to have read.O A similar remark if we confine ourselves to prose works might be made of Bacon's OEssays'.it may not be superfluous to remark that the OEssaysO are the most original of all Bacon's works those which in detail he seems to have thought out most completely for himself apart from books and collections of commonplaces.Appended to the first edition of the OEssaysO was a fragment entitled OOf the Colours of Good and Evil'.it is full of shrewd remarks suggested by Bacon's knowledge of life and observations of human nature. These OColours of Good and EvilO with additions were afterwards embodied in the sixth book of the ODe Augmentis.O Bacon there states that when a young man he had collected many other OcoloursO or Opopular signsO of good and evil but as he had not yet found time to illustrate or examine them he refrained from setting them out." DNB Wing B287. ESTC 15975. Gibson 23b "Enlarged.".‎

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‎François Bacon & Non précisé‎

‎Le christianisme de François Bacon , chancelier dAngleterre ou pensées et sentimens de ce grand homme sur la religion . Tome I‎

‎Nyon & Belin Paris An VII - 1799‎

‎Bon état Reliure pleine peau dépoque , dos lisse orné ( piéces de titre , de tomaison , caissons et motifs ) Ouvrage enrichi dun ex-libris ( Ignace De Bilieux ) Format 17 X 10 cm , 108 pages ( discours préliminaire ) 104 pour la vie de François Bacon et 175 pages ( pensées de Bacon sur la religion etc .....) Reliure solide , pas de manque , légérement auréolé sur quelques pages ( ne nuisant nullement à la lecture du texte ) Tome I seul . Francis Bacon (1561-1626), philosophe anglais . Religion XVIIIe Théologie Théosophie Philosophie Biographie F Bacon‎

Bookseller reference : 19

‎BACON, SIR FRANCIS, BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS (1561-1626).‎

‎FRANCISCI BARONIS DE VERULAMIO, VICE-COMITIS SANCTI ALBANI, HISTORIA VITAE ET MORTIS. EX OFFICINA IOANNIS MAIRE, LUGDUNI BATAVORUM (LEIDEN): 1637.‎

‎pp. 476, [48]. 24mo (in 6). 11 cm. Small woodcut printer's device on title. Foxed. Early manuscript ownership on title of a medical doctor (?) A. Girard (?). Bound in contemporary full vellum. Contemporary ink manuscript title on spine. Joannes Maire was an extremely influential figure for over 50 years (1603-1657). As a scholar, publisher, printer and bookseller in Leiden he is most famous for his editions of Descartes, Erasmus, and Bacon. Francis Bacon was a philosopher, statesman, scientist, and humanist who still ranks among the world's greatest. He studied at Cambridge (where his skepticism about Aristotelian educational philosophy began), and Gray's Inn. In 1576 Bacon was admitted as a senior governor at one of the four Inns of Court, which served as organizations for legal education. That same year Bacon went to France as member of the English ambassador's corps, but was recalled when his father suddenly died. He became a barrister in 1582, an MP in 1584, and was knighted by James I in 1603. He was in turn: Solicitor General (1607); Attorney General (1613); Privy Counsellor (1616); Lord Keeper (1617); and Lord Chancellor (1618). He became Baron Verulam in 1618, and was made Viscount in 1621. Throughout his rise to power complaints were made that he made and accepted bribes (though these charges were probably generated by his political opinions rather than intentional mis-behavior). Eventually he was publicly accused before his peers, heavily fined, imprisoned, and banished from parliament and court. Although soon released, and later pardoned, he never returned to public office. The remaining years of his life proved to be his most productive. He conceived of a plan for the establishment of a 'scientific method' and the drawing together of disparate knowledge into an organic whole. Though his own contributions to science were negligible, his insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had enormous consequences. Indeed, some credit him as 'Father of the Modern World.' First published in 1623, the 'Historia Vitae et Mortis' formed part his plan for a collection of empirical data that was to be a encyclopedic natural history of facts. But the work of data collection was never completed. In March,1626, while driving in the North of London, Bacon decided to conduct an experiment to discover whether snow would delay the decay of meat. He stopped his carriage, purchased a hen, and buried it on the snow. This trip, and the prolonged exposure to the cold, while he observed the progress of his experiment, probably caused his death, less than a month later. "I have taken all knowledge to be my province" - Bacon, 'Letter to Lord Burleigh, 1592'. This tiny (2.5 x 4.5") Leiden pocket version is quite scarce. OCLC shows only four copies in the United States [Library of Congress; Houghton; Dartmouth; and the NY Academy Medicine]. Small Box Safe 1 Very Good Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 091698

‎(BACON FRANCIS)‎

‎FRANCIS BACON: ANNOUNCEMENT FOR &quot;TRIPTYCHS&quot;‎

‎unknown BACON FRANCIS. FRANCIS BACON: ANNOUNCEMENT FOR "TRIPTYCHS". London: Gagosian Gallery 2006. First Edition. Small 4to. Printed Cardstock. Exhibition Announcement. Fine. One 10 x 24" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso neatly folded in thirds to make 6pp 3 color and 1 b&w illustrations. This is the elegant announcement published for Francis Bacon's 2006 London gallery show entitled "Triptychs". A most handsome copy of this ephemeral item. Inventory Number: 017554 .‎

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‎(BACON Francis) John Russell‎

‎Francis Bacon‎

‎London, Thames and Hudson, hardcover . Edited by Jasia Reichardt. Octavo. Original grey boards titles to spine gilt. With the photographic dust jacket of Francis Bacon taken by Cecil Beaton. 27 illustrations including 2 in colour. Book near fine dust jacket rubbed to edges corners nicked rippling to lamination price clipped. First edition first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper !To John with love and affection Francis Bacon!. A retrospective monograph covering Bacon!s life and paintings up to .‎

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‎Bacon Francis Sir; Anderson Melville B. (Edited with an Introduction and Notes by)‎

‎Bacon&#39;s Essays: The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon‎

‎A.C. McClurg & Co paperback Chicago Illinois U.S.A.: ; Wraps; 275 pages 1900 printing; Textblock is tight with previous damp that affected mostly outer-edges of textblock so you will have some occasional light marks on some pages; Has neat gift inscription to previous owner on front-free endpaper that says 'To Myrtle -A Merry Christmas Walter December 25 1902'; Illustrated endpapers with a sewn-in page marker; Red suede soft flexible cover with the title in gold; Has shelf and edge wear including previous mentioned stain to parts of the outer edges with some light rubbing and a 1/2 inch close tear at top of spine; . This starts with a thorough 30 page introduction and history followed by Dates Relative to Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries The Epistle Dictionary and then the Table of Contents. The Table of Contents includes: Of Truth Of Death Of Unity in Religion Of Revenge Of Adversity Of Simulation and Dessimulation Of Parents and Chidren Of Marriage and Single Life Of Envy Of Love Of Great Place Of Boldness Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature Of Nobility Of Seditions and Troubles Of Atheism Of Superstition Of Travel Of Empire Of Counsel Of Delays Of Cunning Of Wisdom for a Man's Self Of Innovations Of Dispatch Of Seeming Wise Of Friendship Of Expense Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates Of Regiment of Health Of Suspicion Of Discourse Of Plantations Of Riches Of Prophecies of Ambition Of Masks and Triumphs Of Nature in Men Of Custom and Education Of Fortune Of Usury Of Youth and Age Of Beauty Of Building Of Gardens Of Negotiating Of Followers and Friends Of Suitors Of Studies Of Faction Of Ceremonies and Respects Of Praise Of Vain-Glory Of Honor and Reputation Of Judicature Of Anger Of Vicissitude of Things. . Soft Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5!" - 6!" tall.‎

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‎Bacon Francis‎

‎The Essayes Or Counsels Civill and Morall...With A Table of the Colours Or Apparances of Good and Evill and their Degrees as plsces of Perswasion and Disseasion and their severall Fallaxes and the Elenches of them‎

‎[6],340,[42]pp. unknown A4B-2B8. Lacks A1 & 2B8 blanks.: London:. Early 20th c. 1/2 calf banded spine title gilt edges speckled red bookplate of Nicholas Simons fore-edge dampstains B4-6 marginal worming at end. John Beale. Large decorated initials head- and tail pieces decorative borders to t.p. Of Bacon's literary as distinct from his philosophical and professional works far the most popular and important are the OEssays.O The title of OEssaysO is probably taken from the OEssaisO of Montaigne who is quoted by name in the first essay which first appeared at Bordeaux in 1580. Hallam says of these that they are the first writings in the French language Owhich a gentleman is ashamed not to have read.O A similar remark if we confine ourselves to prose works might be made of Bacon's OEssays'.it may not be superfluous to remark that the OEssaysO are the most original of all Bacon's works those which in detail he seems to have thought out most completely for himself apart from books and collections of commonplaces.Appended to the first edition of the OEssaysO was a fragment entitled OOf the Colours of Good and Evil'.it is full of shrewd remarks suggested by Bacon's knowledge of life and observations of human nature. These OColours of Good and EvilO with additions were afterwards embodied in the sixth book of the ODe Augmentis.O Bacon there states that when a young man he had collected many other OcoloursO or Opopular signsO of good and evil but as he had not yet found time to illustrate or examine them he refrained from setting them out." DNB STC 1151.ESTC s100372. Gibson 17.‎

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‎Bacon Francis‎

‎Essays Moral Economical and Political‎

‎Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe, No. 78, State-Street, 1807 unknown . First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon"s "Essays" and first separate American edition. 12mo. xv xvi blank 2 Contents 270 pp. Contemporary tree calf board edges worn. New morocco spine with black morocco label. Sound clean copy. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous Books in English Literature" 13; Shaw and Shoemaker 12020. For the first complete edition of 1625: Gibson 13; Pforzheimer 30 . In 1688 William Bradford had printed the first American appearance of Bacon's essays in the third part of a collection edited by Daniel Leeds entitled "The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World". Bacon's theories and his reasoning methods were popular during the Jeffersonian era. Jefferson was a strong advocate and believer in his inductive scientific methods and Baconian theory was evident in many of his actions he even catalogued his library using "Bacon's classification of the human mind into "Reason" "Memory" and "Imagination."" Brown "Thomas Jefferson" p.196. The Baconian theory "that one is educated partly by teachers studies and books but mostly by experience carefully observed and thoughtfully considered was especially appealing in America where Bacon was virtually canonized during the eighteenth century. as one of the true progenitors of the modern world." Cremin L. A. "American Education" 1970 p. 102‎

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‎Bacon Francis (1561 1626)‎

‎Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life‎

‎hardcover London. . Acceptable. London: Printed by I. Okes for Humphrey Mosley actually 1637. 103231pp. 12mo. Early possibly contemporary drab boards rebacked with marbled paper in the 19th century and with several front and rear blank leaves added which seem to have been used to keep several accounts one of which appears to be of books bought and the amounts paid for them. Signed on an added rear blank by Ann Lackington. One of the books listed "Playfairs Acct Scotland" 19 shillings almost certainly refers to James Playfair's A Geographical and Statistical Description of Scotland published in 1819. Lacking A1 the imprimatur leaf and the engraved title-page. A fair amount of scoring in a kind of rust crayon and occasional ink scoring possibly by Ann Lackington. A few minor marginal page tears otherwise a good copy. Uncommon. Text printed within a single border. The first edition in English in an unauthorized translation. The second of Bacon's proposed six natural histories which were intended to illustrate the new way of investigating nature that he had described in Novum Organum. Bacon's new way was inductive and empirical -- in short what we today call scientific method. Of these illustrative books Bacon did finish two: Historia ventorum 1622 and Historia vitae et mortis 1623 while the third the unfinished Historia densi et rari was published posthumously by his secretary William Rawley in 1658. Gibson 153; STC 1157. 6.0 ounces = 170 grams. 5.8 x 3.2 x 1.0 inches = 14.5 x 8 x 2.5cm. A pirated translation translator unknown that appeared several months before Rawley's authorized translation. "The work is an elaborate collection of data on factors governing durability in things animate and inanimate and mortality in living ones. Like the Historia ventorum the proto-statistical Historia vitae had a powerful effect on the character of seventeenth-century 'natural-historical' Baconianism as evidenced for example in the work of John Graunt and William Petty on the bills of mortality and the development of 'political arithmetick'. And again like the Historia densi et rari the Historia vitae exhibits great faith in the efficacy of quantitative data in natural philosophy a faith with which Bacon has seldom been credited by many of his critics" pages 41-42 of Graham Rees's article on Bacon in The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers ed. by Andrew Pyle Volume 1. .‎

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‎Bacon Sir Francis Baron Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1561 1626)‎

‎OEUVRES MORALES ET POLITIQUES DE MESSIRE FRANCOIS BACON Grand Chancelier d&#39;Angleterre. De la version de I. Baudouin‎

‎Jean Roger, Paris: 1639. Hardcover . pp. xvi 639. Woodcut tail pieces and initials. French text. 16 mo. 105 x 165 mm. Old vellum binding worn. No flyleaves. A very scarce French translation of Bacon's famous and excellent 'Essays'. Included also are his: collection of fables showing the Mysterious Wisdom of the Ancients; Table of Colors or the Appearance of Good and Evil; Aphorisms Old & New; and a explanation of the morals found in some Parables of Solomon. Sir Francis Bacon later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans 1561-1626 was an English lawyer statesman essayist historian intellectual reformer philosopher and champion of modern science. Early in his career he claimed "all knowledge as his province" and afterwards dedicated himself to a wholesale revaluation and re-structuring of traditional learning. To take the place of the established tradition a miscellany of Scholasticism humanism and natural magic he proposed an entirely new system based on empirical and inductive principles and the active development of new arts and inventions a system whose ultimate goal would be the production of practical knowledge for "the use and benefit of men" and the relief of the human condition. At the same time that he was founding and promoting this new project for the advancement of learning Bacon was also moving up the ladder of state service. His career aspirations had been largely disappointed under Elizabeth I but with the ascension of James his political fortunes rose. Knighted in 1603 he was then steadily promoted to a series of offices including Solicitor General 1607 Attorney General 1613 and eventually Lord Chancellor 1618. While serving as Chancellor he was indicted on charges of bribery and forced to leave public office. He then retired to his estate where he devoted himself full time to his continuing literary scientific and philosophic work. He died in 1626 leaving behind a cultural legacy that includes most of the foundation for the triumph of technology and for the modern world as we currently know it. Gibson. 168a. MOUNT BX1 PRICE JUST REDUCED!. Hardcover. Very Good.‎

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‎Bacon, Francis‎

‎The First Statesman of Science.‎

‎London: Cresset, 1960. XV, 362 S., gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.‎

‎Umschlag berieben, papierbedingt gebräunt. - Francis Bacon has always been recognized as one of the greatest of men, but there has been remarkably little agreement on the true nature of his greatness. It is clear that Elizabeth was a ruler, Burghley a statesman, Shakespeare a dramatic poet and Drake a seaman; but what was Bacon? He was in part writer, lawyer, statesman, philosopher and scientist, but he was not entirely any one of these. The deepest aspect of his genius now seems to us to be revealed as the combination of statesmanship with science. Bacon was the first to propose the continual improvement of human life by the systematic development of science and technology, not as a Utopian dream but as practical policy. He entered politics with the aim of securing the power necessary to carry it out, and fared with spectacular success and dramatic failure. But in the course of his effort, he struggled with the fundamental problems of the relation between science and public affairs, and the moral difficulties involved, which are the dominating questions of survival in the second half of the twentieth century. Through his combined effort in science and politics, Bacon became the first of the new type of man essential in a scientific age-the Statesman of Science. By unravelling the threads of science and politics in the complex skein of Bacon`s career, Mr Crowther expounds the significance of his ideas for the world in our time. The result throws light on the situation of scientists and politicians of today, who find themselves confronted with problems of the destiny of mankind, which Bacon anticipated long ago.‎

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‎POTT, CONSTANCE MARY FEARON, FRANCIS BACON, AND EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT.‎

‎The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies ...‎

‎Boston, Houghton, Mifflin. 1883. Hard Cover. The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (Being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from Shakespeare. Modern binding, green cloth. xix, 628 p. front. (fold. facsim.) VG. untrimmed edges. A few pencil notes, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Owner's name on half-title, dated 1891. "After a diligent deciphering of the Elizabethan handwriting in Francis Bacon's wastebook, the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies, Constance Mary Fearon Pott (1833-1915) noted that many of the ideas and figures of speech in Bacon's book could also be found in the Shakespeare plays. Pott later founded the Francis Bacon Society in 1885 before publishing her Bacon-centered theory in 1891. In this, Pott developed the view of W.F.C. Wigston that Francis Bacon was the founding member of the Rosicrucians, a secret society of occult philosophers, and claimed that they secretly created art, literature and drama, including the entire Shakespeare canon, before adding the symbols of the rose and cross to their work." [See Wikipedia.]. Very Good/No Jacket.‎

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‎BACON (Francis)‎

‎The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane.‎

‎London, "for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop", 1605. 1605 1 vol. in-8° (190 x 143 mm.) de : [1] ff. (titre), 45 (« The first booke »), 118 ff. (« The second booke »), [1] ff. ; sans les 2 ff. dErrata qui manquent souvent, mais avec le rare ff. final blanc ; lettrines ornementales au début de chaque livre. Plein vélin d'époque à recouvrements, dos lisse titré à l'encre brune, traces de lacets ; étui contemporain en demi-maroquin.‎

‎Édition originale de cet ouvrage de Francis Bacon (1561-1626), en même temps que son premier essai philosophique et le seul quil publia en anglais les autres étant écrits en latin. Le premier des deux livres est une défense puissante et éloquente de la connaissance, considérée comme fondamentale et ce, à tout âge de la vie. Le deuxième livre, plus long mais peut-être aussi plus important, propose une sorte de synthèse de létat général des connaissances de lépoque afin dy pointer les déficiences et les lacunes qui sont à combler. Limportance de louvrage ne réside non pas tant dans son caractère encyclopédique, mais plutôt dans son intention, à savoir celle de souligner la valeur et le progrès que permettent lapprentissage et la connaissance, et de proposer des moyens pratiques pour atteindre ce but. Au début du second livre, lauteur invite le roi Jacques Ier, à instaurer une réforme complète des institutions consacrées au savoir, en proposant notamment la fondation de plusieurs bibliothèques et instituts de recherches, en incitant à placer davantage de moyens financiers dans les universités et à augmenter le revenu des professeurs ; il en appelle même à une coopération internationale entre les savants des différents pays. L'idée prophétique de Francis Bacon était en fait celle d'institutionnaliser une forme d'apprentissage expérimental afin de former une classe de scientifiques expérimentaux ayant les moyens de quérir le pouvoir, car, rappelons-le, Francis Bacon fut aussi un homme politique brillant, quoique peu recommandable, et fut même nommé grand chancelier en 1618. Par ailleurs, Francis Bacon expose clairement dans ce premier travail philosophique, les principes quil développera plus tard dans son uvre majeure The novum organum et qui reposent sur une classification rigoureuse des sciences. Provenance : Bridgewater Library (planche armoriée au début de louvrage) ; Henry E. Huntington (tampon en fin douvrage). Bel exemplaire, en excellent état. First Edition of Bacons first published philosophical work and the only one that he published in English. The first of the two books is an eloquent and powerful defence of the importance of learning to every field of life. The much longer and more important second book is a general survey of the contemporary state of human knowledge, identifying its deficiencies and supplying Bacons broad suggestions for improvement. Grolier 100.8a ; Gibson, 81.‎

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‎BACON, FRANCIS.‎

‎THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS, CIVIL AND MORAL...WITH A TABLE OF THE COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. WHEREUNTO IS ADDED THE WISDOM OF THE ANTIENTS. A2,B-F8.[MISSING BLANK F8 AS IN ALL COPIES]. [4],254,[12],31,[15],131[1]P. LONDON:‎

‎T. N. for John Martyn,S. Mearne, & H. Herringman 1673. 8vo. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt rules on covers, gilt spine in compartments, title on red leather label, lacks first compartment at head, hinges cracked,marbled edges; engraved port. cut to margins and laid-down with small edge stain (not in image). Engraved port. of Bacon inserted from 1668 edition. "Of Bacon's literary, as distinct from his philosophical and professional, works, far the most popular and important are the EEssays.Õ The title of EEssaysÕ is probably taken from the EEssaisÕ of Montaigne (who is quoted by name in the first essay), which first appeared at Bordeaux in 1580. Hallam says of these that they are the first writings in the French language Ewhich a gentleman is ashamed not to have read.Õ A similar remark, if we confine ourselves to prose works, might be made of Bacon's EEssays'....it may not be superfluous to remark that the EEssaysÕ are the most original of all Bacon's works, those which, in detail, he seems to have thought out most completely for himself, apart from books and collections of commonplaces...Appended to the first edition of the EEssaysÕ was a fragment entitled EOf the Colours of Good and Evil'...it is full of shrewd remarks suggested by Bacon's knowledge of life and observations of human nature. These EColours of Good and Evil,Õ with additions, were afterwards embodied in the sixth book of the EDe Augmentis.Õ Bacon there states that, when a young man, he had collected many other EcoloursÕ or Epopular signsÕ of good and evil, but, as he had not yet found time to illustrate or examine them, he refrained from setting them out.." DNB Wing B287. ESTC 15975. Gibson 23b "Enlarged.".‎

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‎[BACON, FRANCIS]‎

‎1- FRANCISCI BACONI, BARONIS DE VERULAMIO, VICE-COMITIS SANCTI ALBANI, OPERUM MORALIUM ET CIVILIUM [...] GUILIELMI RAWLEY [...]. LONDRES, EDWARD GRIFFIN, RICHARD WHITAKER, 1638 (DEUX PARTIES).RELIE ENSUITE : 2- INSTAURATIO MAGNA [NOVUM ORGANUM PARS SECUNDA]. LONDON, JOHN BILL, 1620.TROIS TOMES (DEUX POUR &quot;OPERUM&quot;) RELIES EN UN VOLUME IN-FOLIO ; PLEIN VEAU HAVANE GLACE', DOS A' NERFS DECORES DE ROULETTE DOREE, FLEURONS ET DOUBLE ENCADREMENT DORES, TITRE DORE', DOUBLE FILET DORE' D'ENCADREMENT DES PLATS (RELIURE DE L'EPOQUE).‎

‎-OPERUM MORALIUM ET CIVILIUM : (8) (titre, dedicace et Lectori, par G. Rawley), (1) f. blanc, (6), 386 pp. ; (16), 475, (1) bl., tres beau portrait grave' de Bacon. Contient : Historium Regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliae ; Sermones Fideles, sine Interiora rerum ; Tractatum de Sapienta Veterum ; Dialogum de Bello Sacro ; Novum Atlandidem ; Tractatus de Augmentis Scientiarum ; Historia Ventorum ; Historia Vitae et Mortis.EDITION ORIGINALE EN PREMIER TIRAGE de la premiere edition des Oeuvres de Bacon en latin.Francis Bacon est considere' par les Francs-Macons comme l'un des premiers fondateurs de l'Ordre, dont il aurait trace' le plan et defini le role dans sa "NOVUM ATLANTIDEM" (Caillet, 616).-INSTAURATIO MAGNA : titre grave', (7) pp., (3 bl.), contient le NOVUM ORGANUM, 360 pp. et Parasceve ad historiam naturalem et experimentalem, 37, (1) pp. Initiales historiees, bois graves de 10 ou 8 lignes ; notre exemplaire est conforme a' celui de la British Library (System number 000 104 378), avec, en fin d'ouvrage, la derniere feuille e3 annulee et remplacee par une feuille incluant l'errata.Edition originale de toute rarete du texte majeur de Francis Bacon, texte fondateur, qui a completement revolutionne' la philosophie des sciences ; avec lui, nous passons de la science aristotelicienne pour entrer dans la Science Moderne. Le traite "Parasceve ad historiam naturalem et experimentalem" ne sera pas reimprime' dans les editions anciennes de Bacon (Caillet, 613). Le tres beau titre grave' represente les deux colonnes d'Hercule qui symbolisent l'Ancienne et la Nouvelle Science, le bateau, qui s'engage dans le detroit de Gibraltar, symbolise le Monde Scientifique qui s'engage dans cette voie nouvelle tracee par le texte de Bacon.La belle reliure XVIIe est assez usagee avec une charniere fendue, les coiffes arrachees, les coins uses et quelques epidermures et frottements, mais bien solide ; l'interieur est en tres bel etat, bien frais.‎

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‎Bacon, Sir Francis‎

‎CERTAINE MISCELLANY WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, FRANCIS LO. VERULAM, VISCOUNT S. ALBANS. Published by William Rawley... [BOUND WITH: [Gordon, Thomas]. FRANCIS, LORD BACON: OR, THE CASE OF PRIVATE AND NATIONAL CORRUPTION, AND BRIBERY... Addressíd‎

‎Printed by J. Haviland for Humphrey Robinson. unknown 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 printerís 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... Addressíd 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.‎

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‎Townsend, James Bliss,and Howard, Wendell Stanton. (Bacon, Edward R.)‎

‎Memorial Catalogue of Paintings by Old and Modern Masters Collected by Edward R. Bacon‎

‎New York: Privately printed for Virginia P. Bacon The De Vinne Press 1919 hardcover New York: Privately printed for Virginia P. Bacon [The De Vinne Press], 1919. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (hardback). Raised bands and spine ends chipped with loss, front hinge cracked and tender but threads still holding, otherwise binding still tight and leaves near fine In a worn slipcase. 4to (30 1/2 x 23 cm). Biographical notes by John Getz. Illus. with 43 b/w plates most accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Number 56 of an unknown printing. 290 paintings catalogued. Biographical notes on artists. Edward Rathbone Bacon (1846-1915) was involved in railroad syndicates, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and a financier.‎

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