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Lot 61
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$625
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Lot Description
BACON, Sir Francis (1561-1626). The Works. London: A. Millar [vol. III: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson], 1765.
5 volumes, 4to (295 x 225 mm). Titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette; engraved frontispieces to vols. I-IV, 2 folding letterpress tables. (A few mostly marginal worm tracks, some minor staining or offsetting to a few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-pieces and original endpapers, a few repairs).
Collected edition of Bacon's works, edited by Thomas Birch. ESTC T88309.