Of the advancement and proficience of learning
Subtitle: or, The partitions of sciences, IX bookes.  Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious Lord Francis 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: Printed by L. Lichfield, for R. Young & E. Forrest
Published: 1640
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 479
Notes: At head of title: Instavr[atio] mag[na] p[ars] 1.

Errors in paging; no. 351-352 (4th group) duplicated.

Gibson 141a.

S.T.C. 1167.

Translation of the De augmentis scientiarum which is an enlargement 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]?).