75/2119 Bacon, F. Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. Ed, W. Rawley. London, Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, 1635, 4th ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (20),260,(28); (4),47,(3)p., engr. frontisp. portrait, engr. title by T. CECIL, contemp. calf w. triple fillet line along border, gilt boardedges, 4to.

- First and final 15 pages sl. browned/ sl. stained in outer margins; bookseller's clipping on lower pastedown. New endpapers; rebacked w. modern leather; covers sl. rubbed.

= Apart from the first title, the vol. contains New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished (n.pl., n.d.) and History Naturall and Experimentall (...) (London, 1650). Wing B327; Gibson 174. "His unfinished account of the ideal scientific society was published posthumously in New Atlantis [Novus Atlas], which ranks among the best-known and most delightful Utopian writings in the world and has been perhaps the most influential. (...) Bacon's immense prestige and influence in later seventeenth-century science does not rest upon positive achievements in either experiment or theory but rather, upon his vision of science expressed in Novum organum and New Atlantis and in particular upon his fundamental optimism about the possibilities for its rapid development." (DSB).