Item #16387040 The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life. Viscount S. Alban Francis Lord Verulam, Sir Francis Bacon.
The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life.
The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life.
The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life.
The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life.

The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life.

London: Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, 1638. First edition. Hardcover. [xiv]*, 323pp +[blank]. The imprimatur leaf has small repairs to its slightly frayed edges, and an 1826 ownership name in sepia to the back of it has bled through to the front. No other marks. Pages in very good order, tanned at the edges. 12mo, c.14.3x8.8cms, in the early or original blind-ruled brown calf boards, with a new blind-ruled brown calf spine with off-white endpapers. A very nice and complete copy. *[The unpaginated prelims consist of (ii) imprimatur, (iii) engraved title, (v) title, (vii-xi) Mosley's dedication, (xii-xiv) To the Living and Posterity/ to the Reader. i, iv, & vi are blanks.]. Very Good. Item #16387040

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