Of the advancement and proficiencie of learning
Subtitle: or, The partitions of sciences, nine books.  Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious and famous Lord Bacon
By: Interpreted by Gilbert Wats
Contributors: Wats, Gilbert, d. 1657; Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1775-1851 (bookplate); Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869 (bookplate)
Publisher: T. Williams
Published: 1674
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 322
Notes: Errors in paging.

Gibson 142.

Wing B312.

Translation of the De augmentis scientiarum (first part of the Instauratio magna) which is an enlargement, translated into Latin, of the Advancement of learning, 1605.

RBSC copy: With two bookplates of the Earls of Derby (Edward Smith Stanley the 13th Earl, and Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, the 14th Earl [Franks 27891]?).