[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1658 1st issue of Bacon's Opuscula...

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Bacon, Sir Francis. OPUSCULA VARIA POSTHUMA, PHILOSOPHICA, CIVILIA, ET 
THEOLOGICA. Nunc Primum Edita. Cura & Fide Guilielmi Rawley… London: R. Danielis. 
1658. 8vo. (36),216pp. Cont. paneled calf, rebacked. Title page a bit soiled and 
with a small repaired tear at top inner margin, but a very good copy.     
$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first issue (with only the R. Danielis imprint). A posthumous collection 
of unpublished writings by Bacon, including a biography of Bacon by his editor 
William Rawley, treatises such as “Inquisitio De Magnete” and “Articuli 
Inquisitionis de Metallis & Mineralibus,” etc. Gibson (Supplement) 230b, notes 
that the second issue with the “for Octavian Pulleyn” in the imprint, also is 
identified by a comma on line 8 of the title after the word “Verulamo,” Our 
copy of 230a (the first issue), also contains this comma on the title, 
identifying a further variant not mentioned by Gibson. Wing B314 (listing only the 
second issue).

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