Sylva sylvarum
Subtitle: or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added, The history natural and experimental of liee [sic] and death; or, Of the prolongation of life.
By: Published after the authors death, by William Rawley.  Whereunto is added Articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals.  And the New Atlantis.  As also the life of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, never added to this book before.
Contributors: Rawley, William, 1588?-1667; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1775-1851 (bookplate); Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869 (bookplate); Spedding, James, 1808-1881 (autograph)
Edition: The 9th and last ed., with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.
Publisher: Printed by J.R. for VVilliam Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg, Francis Tyton, John Martin, Thomas Vere, Randolph Taylor, Edward Thomas, Thomas Passenger, Nevil Symmons, Robert Clavel, William Crook, Charles Smith, William Cadman, and James Magnes ...
Published: 1670
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Bacon, Francis, -- 1561-1626; Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
Work titles: Sylva sylvarum.
Notes: "The life of ... Francis Bacon ...", "Articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals ..." and "History natural and experimental of life and death ..." have each separate paging and special t.p.; the last two dated 1669.

Errors in paging.

Gibson 179b, variant.

Wing B331A, variant.

RBSC copy: Vol. 1, port., added engr. t.p. dated 1669, dedication (prelim. p. [3-4], "Table of chief matter" ([18] p.), "His Lordships usual receipt for the gout" [1] p.) and v. 2, p. 17-22, wanting. Vol. 2, "To the reader" (prelim. p. [3-4]) bound before the text instead of before the preface to "The history of life and death".  Bound in 2 vols. 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]?). With the autograph of James Spedding.