Swann Galleries - Early Printed, Medical, Science & Travel Books - Sale 2379

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ARCHIMEDES.

Archimedis quae supersunt omnia.

Greek text with Latin

translation and commentary; edited by Giuseppe Torelli. Woodcut text diagrams through-

out. [6], v, [1], xxix, [1], [2], 471, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece and portrait of

Torelli. Folio, 416x257 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, spine darkened, brittle, and

chipped, rear cover detached; conspicuous foxing at beginning and end, infrequent mar-

ginal foxing in between, offsetting from engravings onto facing pages. Signature of the

astronomer Stephen Rigaud (1774-1839) dated 1810; stamps of Radcliffe Observatory,

Oxford.

WIDE

MARGINED COPY

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1792

[800/1,200]

FIRST TORELLI EDITION

DSB I, 230; Hoffmann I, 228; Riccardi I, 45.

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BACON, FRANCIS, Sir.

The

Twoo Bookes . . . of the Proficiencie

and Advancement of Learning,

Divine and Humane.

[2], 166, 169-198,

169, 100-132, 233-335 pages. 4to,

190x142 mm, early 20th-century panelled

calf with morocco lettering pieces; con-

tents washed with residual marginal

dampstaining, first gathering possibly sup-

plied with title heavily soiled, torn in

blank lower outer corner and mounted,

next leaf reinforced in lower outer corner

on verso, handwritten catalogue descrip-

tion tipped to front free endpaper.

Bookplate of James P. R. Lyell (1871-

1949).

Washington, 1629

[800/1,200]

Second edition of Bacon’s 1605 treatise on

learning and the organization of human

knowledge. Gibson 82; STC 1165 (this edi-

tion); Grolier/Horblit 8a (original edition).

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