Diet.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of Life and
Diet.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life, first edition in English, initial imprimatur leaf, additional engraved title, printed title within typographic border, woodcut decorations and initials, nick to fore-edge causing slight marginal damage, contemporary calf, modern cloth chemise and slip-case, [STC 1157], 12mo, Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, 1638.
⁂ Very good copy of this unauthorised and anonymous translation of Historia vitae et mortis, which appeared two months before William Rawley's authorised version, whose foreword said of this translation "lame, and defective, in the whole". It includes Bacon's advice on food and diet.
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Diet.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life, first edition in English, initial imprimatur leaf, additional engraved title, printed title within typographic border, woodcut decorations and initials, nick to fore-edge causing slight marginal damage, contemporary calf, modern cloth chemise and slip-case, [STC 1157], 12mo, Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, 1638.
⁂ Very good copy of this unauthorised and anonymous translation of Historia vitae et mortis, which appeared two months before William Rawley's authorised version, whose foreword said of this translation "lame, and defective, in the whole". It includes Bacon's advice on food and diet.
