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Published by Lugundi Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Joannis Maire., 1657
Seller: West Grove Books, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 12mo. [xxii], 144 pp. In recent semi-limp, slotted vellum with ribbon ties. First published in English in 1619 as The wisedome of the ancients translated by Sir Arthur Gorges from Bacon's Latin original of 1609. Title page states this to be the third edition, but according to Gibson (90) is in fact the sixth. Thirty-one mythological fables, mostly from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti, interpreted in the light of Bacon's new learning or scientific method.