75/2120 Bacon, F. Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History. In Ten Centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History Natural and Experimentall of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. Ed. W. Rawley. London, Printed by J.R. for William Lee, 1670, 9th ed., 5 parts in 1 vol., engr. frontisp. portrait, engr. title by T. CECIL, contemp. calf, folio.

- Bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bar on upper pastedown; hinges weak. Binding worn; joints starting/ splitting.

= Apart from the first title, the vol. consists of The Life of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon (London, 1670), History Natural and Experimental of Life & Death (...) (ibid., 1669), Articles of Enquiry (ibid., 1669) and New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished (n.pl., n.d.). Gibson 179b; Wing B331A. "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).