This is the 1665 First Latin Printing of 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, IAM VERO SUMMO STUDIO COLLECTA, UNO VOLUMINE COMPREHENSA, & AB INNUMERIS MMENDIS REPURGATA: CUM INDICE RERUM AC VERBORUM UNIVERSALI ABSOLUTISSIMO, HIS PRAEFIXA EST AUCTORIS VITA, (ALL THE WORKS WHICH EXIST: PHILOSOPHICAL, MORAL, POLITICAL, HISTORICAL...IN WHICH MANY OTHER TREATISES WHICH I SEEM TO OMIT FOR BRIEVITY ARE COMPREHENSIVE. HITHERTO NEVER PUBLISHED TOGETHER, ALREADY COLLECTED WITH THE HIGHEST STUDY, COMPRISED IN ONE VOLUME, AND PURIFIED BY INNUMERABLE THOUSANDS: WITH THE MOST COMPLETE INDEX OF THINGS AND WORDS OF THE UNIVERSAL, TO WHICH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR IS PREFIXED), by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron of Verulam, Vice-Count of St. Albans, Chancellor of England, Published by Johann Baptista Schonwetter in Frankfurt am Main and with the text Printed in double columns by Matthaus Kempfer in a Folio measuring 8.5" x 13.5" containing [xvi], 1324 columns (662 pp.), [29] pp. plus 2 blank leaves at front and 3 blank leaves at the rear. Laid in is a manuscript folio leaf depicting a chart-like breakdown of "Dotrina Humana" written on "GB" watermarked laid paper. The volume is illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Bacon facing a title page printed in red & black containing a large engraved vignette, 9 secondary title pages, each dated 1664 and containing a large woodcut illustration of Neptune (?) with a Griffin (?), plus a number of decorative woodcut initial letters and tailpieces. This is the First Latin Edition of Bacon's Complete Works, containing; Tractatus nempe de Dignitate & Augmentis Scientiarum; Novum Organum Scientiarum; Historia Ventorum; Historia Vitae & Mortis; Scripta de Naturali & Universali Philosophia; Sylva Sylvarum, or Natural History; New Atlantis; History of the Reign of King Henry VII; Sermones Fideles; Tractatus de Sapientia Veterum; Dialogus de Bello Sacro; Opus Illustre in felicem memoriam Elisabethae Reginae; Imago Civilis Iulii Caesaris; Imago Civilis Augusti Caesaris. Prefaced by a dedication to Johann Helwig Sinold called Schütz by the publisher Schönwetter, as well as a Life of Bacon.
The volume is bound in contemporary edge-worn and surface-rubbed polished, panelled calf leather, neatly rebacked with original spine label laid down.
Per Worldcat:
Per the Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy online;
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. As a lawyer, member of Parliament, and Queen's Counsel, Bacon wrote on questions of law, state and religion, as well as on contemporary politics; but he also published texts in which he speculated on possible conceptions of society, and he pondered questions of ethics (Essays) even in his works on natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning).
After his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, London, Bacon did not take up a post at a university, but instead tried to start a political career. Although his efforts were not crowned with success during the era of Queen Elizabeth, under James I he rose to the highest political office, Lord Chancellor. Bacon's international fame and influence spread during his last years, when he was able to focus his energies exclusively on his philosophical work, and even more so after his death, when English scientists of the Boyle circle (Invisible College) took up his idea of a cooperative research institution in their plans and preparations for establishing the Royal Society.
To the present day Bacon is well known for his treatises on empiricist natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum Scientiarum) and for his doctrine of the idols, which he put forward in his early writings, as well as for the idea of a modern research institute, which he described in Nova Atlantis.
Mounted on the inside front cover is the engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Howes of Morningthorpe Manor. Per Wikipedia:
Edward Howes M.P. | |
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 Portrait of Edward Howes by Frederick Sandys | |
| Born | 1813 |
| Died | 1871 |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer, politician |
Life
Howes was the son of Rev. George Howes, rector of Spixworth, Norfolk, and his wife Elizabeth Fellowes, daughter of Robert Fellowes of Shotesham Park, Norwich.
He was educated at St Paul's School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Bell Scholar in 1832, scholar in 1833, Porson Prize winner in 1834 and winner of the 2nd Chancellor's medal in 1835. He graduated BA in 1835 and MA in 1838. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1836 and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in June 1839. He did not practise as a barrister but was an equity draftsman and conveyancer. He lived at Morningthorpe, Norfolk and was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Norfolk. He became chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Norfolk in 1848, and a Church Estates Commissioner in 1866.
Howes was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk at the 1859 general election and held the seat until it was abolished in 1868. At the 1868 general election he was elected MP for South Norfolk. He held the seat until his death aged 57 in 1871. He was opposed to the Malt Tax, and all attempts to " impair the influence of the Church of England."
Howes married firstly in 1842 Agnes Maria Gwyn, daughter of Richard Gwyn. She died in 1843 and he married secondly in September 1851, Fanny Fellowes, daughter of Robert Fellowes the younger of Shotesham Park.[
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