Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

228 228 c   BACON, FRANCIS, Sir. Sylva Sylvarum; or, A Naturall Historie . . . The third Edition. [28], 33, [1], 39-260, [28]; [4], 47, [5] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait, additional title dated 1631, and final blank. Folio, 272x180 mm, contemporary blind- ruled calf with later leather lettering piece and gilt crest in bottom compartment, minor surface wear on covers; contents clean, an attractive copy overall. Unidentified modern bookplate (“Halcyon / Lake Almanor / Burns”). Gibson 174; STC 1172. London: John Haviland for William Lee, to be sold by John Williams, 1635 [500/750] 229 c   BACON, FRANCIS, Sir. The Works. 4 engraved frontispieces; 3 folding tables. 5 volumes. 4to, 287x225 mm, contemporary tan calf gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact, cover corners worn; offsetting from frontispieces onto titles, table in Volume 1 foxed, contents otherwise generally clean, front free endpapers loose. Bookplates of the Revd. J. L. Salvador and Henry Harcourt Horn. London: A. Millar, 1765 [400/600] 230 c   BASILIUS VALENTINUS, attributed to. Les Douze Clefs de Philosophie. Part 1 (of 3); lacks the Azoth and Traité de l’Oeuf des Philosophes. Full-page engraved illustration; half-page woodcut diagram. 167 [i. e., 176] pages. 8vo, 154x101 mm, 19th-century vellum boards with worn leather lettering piece, covers slightly warped; dark stains on title and next leaf, scattered stains and soiling elsewhere, repaired clean tear in G2. Paris: Ieremie et Christophle Perier, 1624 [400/600] first edition in french of one of a number of alchemical works spuriously attributed to a late medieval German Benedictine monk. Caillet 800; DSB XIII, 559; Partington II, 191.