BACON (Francis) - Francisci Baconi ... Opera omnia... Lot 19

BACON (Francis) - Francisci Baconi [...] Opera omnia quae extant, philosophica, moralia, politica, historica . in quibus complures alii tractatus, quos brevitatis causa praetermittere visum est, comprehensi sunt, hactenus nunquam conjunctim edita, jam vero summo studio collecta, uno volumine comprehensa, & ab innumeris mendis repurgata: cum indice rerum ac verborum universali absolutissimo. His praefixa est auctoris vita - Franckfort ; Joannis Baptistae Schonwtteri, typis Matthaei Kempfferi, 1665 - 1 volume In-folio - [9] leaves, 1324 columns (text on 2 columns), [29] pages of index - Small freckles and many browned leaves - Without the frontispiece portrait of Bacon often missing, title in red and black ink with publisher's mark (marginal insect work as well as on the 3 following leaves) - Letters, Each of the 8 works has a separate title page with woodcut vignette and date of printing Anno MDCLXIV - Bound in ivory vellum - Smooth spine titled in gold (slightly soiled and 1 small tear) - Discreet old handwritten bookplate on the title: Jacob Dominatus - 1st Latin edition of the collected works of Bacon, in turn lawyer, judge, political theorist, statesman, natural philosopher, essayist, historian, rhetorician and utopian.