The Advancement of Learning by Bacon, First Edition (27 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Glossy, pictorial soft-cover, 153p w Note, Bibliography, Appendix and Glossary. "The text of this edition .is based upon the modernised version in the 4th volume of The Works of Francis Bacon.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition Thus; Sixth Printing. Good+: shows moderate wear to the extremities and the dust-darkening to the backstrip (the titles thereon remain bold and clearly legible) ; aformer owner's name printed at the front free endpaper; tanning to the endpapers and the slightest tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding leans but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A good reading copy showing moderate wear and minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7 x 4.85 x 0.35 inches) . Extensive Notes and Index by F. G. Selby. Crimson cloth over boards with embossed designs at the front panel and black bands and titles at the front panel and backstrip. Language: English. Weight: 6 ounces. First published in 1892; 6th printing (1917). Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) , was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. The Advancement of Learning or more accurately, The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, though perhaps less read than his Essays, has had a remarkable impact on the course of human scientific endeavors and philosopy. It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a major pioneering essay in support of empirical philosophy. The following passage from The Advancement of Learning was used as the foreword to a popular Cambridge textbook: "So that as Tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye, and a body ready to put itself in all positions, so, in the Mathematics the use which is collateral, an intervenient, is no less worthy, than that which is principle and intended". ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 151 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, tight copy throughout with moderate wear. No markings except previous owner signature on first inner leaf. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Probably 1970s, Edited and with an Introduction by G W Kitchin, by arrangement with Dent and mainly following the first edition of 1605. 246pp, including the Glossary, Glossary of Quotations and Index. Brown leatherette boards with gilt ornament. Ribbon bookmark. Frontispiece portrait. A very clean copy. The first book concerns the profitability and dignity of learning and the second is a survey and classification of the various branches of learning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards show scuffing, interior pages show occassional markings. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xii 244p small neat hardback, navy cloth with sunned spine, very good condition, binding intact, spine a bit worn at top edge, name to endpaper, pages clean and bright, a good copy of the presumed first edition Language: English.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Thus. 144 x 95 mm; 3d; standard designed cover with floral motifs etc.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide Bon état bords un peu frottés tranche ternie intérieur propre couverture marquée de ternissures. in12. 1926. Cartonné. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 491pgs. Blue ribbed cloth, Publisher's logo embossed in gilt on the front panel. foxing to the endpapers, some wear to the upper edge, Pages 29-30 have tears, no lost text. Unclipped pictorial jacket has tears, chips along the extremties Size: Octavo.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in white; 342pp. Light shelf wear including tiny chip at jacket spine foot not approaching text, ownership signature to half title page, else a Very Good or better copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. original cloth hardcover,402 pages,spine faded,covers rubbed and chipped hence good only,INTERNALLY CLEAN AND COMPLETE.Shelf N17.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and onto the margins of the panels. Shelf-cocked. Pages lightly age-tanned, more heavily so at the margins. First edition (first printing). Dust wrapper over Navy Blue boards with Gilt titles to the Spine) Physically 8¼" x 5½" (0.8 kg); (xxvi) 297pp; Index; Edited by Arthur Johnston; Includes: Further reading list; Chronological tables (1); ISBN: 0198710356 || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199076 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Published by the Franklin Library in full leather, part of 'The Hundred Greatest Books of All Time' series, published for subscribers only. Gilt embossed boards and lettered spine, with all edge gilt and sewn in bookmark present.

Pott 8vo. First impression in The World's Classics. Original green cloth, gilt. Covers dulled and marked. Edges spotted. Contents clean. Very good. #93 in The World's Classics.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original paper-labelled cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 341 pages; Physical desc. : xvi, 341p. ; 17 cm. Subject: Science --Methodology --Induction (Logic) --Philosophy --Logic. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original paper-labelled cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 341 pages; Physical desc. : xvi, 341p. ; 17 cm. Subject: Science --Methodology --Induction (Logic) --Philosophy --Logic. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Very Good example of Bacon's First published works. Better known under title: Advancement of learning. In attractive full calf (c1818), decorative gilt tooling, edges rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, [2], 45 ff, 70, 70-71, [1] 70, [21], 89-97, [8], 106-118 ff, [2] blanks, (signatures A-M2, Aa-3H1), small burn hole Pp3-Qq2, slightly affecting text, occasional light spotting & soiling, the fep & the last 2 blanks have been substituted with blanks watermarked 1817 (although ESTC states that most copies were issued without these), this was probably when the book was rebound in its attractive calf, a.e.g., ink names to tp (Isabella Douglas; Montrose; & P Rutherford). The variant copy with C4r line 5 reading maniable rather than amiable. Erratic pagination, but complete. (181*131 mm). (ESTC 1164; Gibson 81; Pforzheimer 36) Thomas Purfoot (the elder) printed book 1 and 2K-2R of book 2; Thomas Creede printed 2A-2I, 3E-3H; another, unidentified, printer or compositor set the rest. Cf. STC.

First Pickering edition, small 8vo, pp. xvi, 350; Pickering anchor & dolphin device on title page; contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, red leather label on spine, marbled edges and endpapers; lightly rubbed at extremities; generally good and sound. Bookplate of Amos Tuck French, Tuxedo Park. Keynes, p. 51; Kelly, 1838.1.

First Pickering edition, small 8vo, pp. xvi, 350, [1]; inserted wood-engraved title page printed in red and black, Pickering anchor & dolphin device on title page; prize binding of full polished tan calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1, marbled edges and endpapers, the front cover stamped in gilt "The / Grammar School / Dudley. / 1849." Extremities rubbed, else very good. Early ownership signature on flyleaf of "John G. C. Browne 1849," likely tghe recipient of the prize. This copy with what must be an uncommon final leaf bearing two printed spine labels for the book. No OCLC record accounts for this leaf. Keynes, p. 51; Kelly, 1838.1.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. ; The Great Books of the Western World.

square 8vo. full 19th-century calf, border stamped in gilt on boards, gilt ornamentation on spine, red leather spine label in second compartment, five raised bands, all edges stained red. (2 blanks), 45, 121 leaves; (1 blank), (iv), 340, pages. and their degrees, as places of perswasion, and disswasion, and their severall fallaxes, and the elenches of them. Newly enlarged. Two works bound in One. First edition of the "preparative or key for the opening of the instauration" (Grolier/Horblit). First edition (Pforzheimer 36; Gibson 81; Grolier, Langland to Wither, 12; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Norman 97; Norman Library 261; STC 1164) [with] the newly enlarged edition (ESTC S100372; Gibson 17. Perez Zagorin, Francis Bacon, 1999). Early 20th-century ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Lacking the errata (Pforzheimer), however Gibson states that they are "not often found". Scuffing to the leather binding, rubbing to hinges and extremities, minor loss to the first two blanks, two pin-point worm holes on the title page near the publisher, small dampstain to top corner of leaf 10, minor margin loss to the bottom gutter of leaf 107 of Twoo Bookes,the bottom fore-edge of page 207/208 of Essayes, and small worm holes on the final leaf and subsequent free endsheet. Else a near fine copy and internally very clean and free of blemishes. The variant copy with page 11, line 5 reading 'maniable' rather than 'amiable'. Many of the pages of Twoo Bookes are inconsistently paginated with hand notations in ink, but the book is complete. An excellent copy of the first published work of Francis Bacon with decorative woodcut initials. Exceptionally rare. Bound in full calf, circa 1818. From the Haskell F. Norman Library Christie's sale (Part II, June 15 & 16, 1998): "The Advancement of learning was the first of two works in which Bacon expounded his philosophy of scientific method. It was expanded and latinized as De augmentis scientiarum in 1623. "In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology" (Norman). It was the only work Bacon ever published in English." The second volume bound-in, The Essayes or, Covnsels, Civill and Morall. (1639) has the title in a woodcut border. First published in 1597, this work is the enlarged edition, and perhaps the most widely read work of Bacon. "Some of the essays deal with policy for princes and men in high position. A number, however, are written from the viewpoint of those seeking advancement in life. Bacon proffers concise advice and judgements on civil business, situations, conduct, and the weighing of character and motives. The work's appeal is due to the pragmatic intelligence and knowledge informing its observations, which are expressed in a style employing striking images, apt examples, and quotations, and pithy aphorisms" (Zagorin, p. 141). full 19th-century calf, border stamped in gilt on boards, gilt ornamentation on spine, red leather spine label in second compartment, five raised bands, all edges stained red.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "Of the advancement and proficience of learning or the partitions of sciences. IX bookes Written in Latin by the most eminent illustrious & famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Vicont St Alban Counsilour of Estate and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats." This is the first English edition of Francis Bacons On the Advancement of Learning - published in Oxford in 1640. -Published by Leon Lichfield - Printer to the University of Oxford - for Robert Young and E. Forrest -1st edition (2nd Issue - as usual - with the colophon dated 1640) Folio - [38], 60, [14], 352, 351-477, [21] (Complete) Early 20th Century calf (to style) - Rebacked Less common varient edition with letterpress title page and portrait of Francis Bacon The work is a foundation text on the scientific method, with 9 books exploring the relationship between philosophy and science. Bacon breaks down human knowledge into its different parts, with theology underpinning all learning. He argues that all knowledge must come from sensory experience or empirical evidence - the basis of the scientific method Provenance - Contemporary ownership signatures to title page - John Seymour , Glen eyre? 1690 ESTC S106902; USTC 3020913.

Full description: BACON, [Sir] Francis. The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. First edition. Two parts in one small quarto volume (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 195 x 145 mm). [1, title], 45; 118, [i.e., 121] leaves. Bound without initial and final blank leaves or the two extra leaves of errata found only in "a very few copies.probably of the latest sold" (Pforzheimer). C4r, line 5 with variant "maniable" instead of "amiable" and page 118 with page number. No priority in these variants according to ESTC. Signature G is misbound after signature I. Decorative woodcut initials. 18th-century calf, boards stamped and ruled in blind. Spine stamped in gilt. Tan leather spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. A one-inch closed tear to margin of leaf C, not affecting text. Leaves Bb2 and Aaa with blank corners torn. A tiny rust hole to leaf E4, only touching one letter. Some mild toning, mainly to final leaf. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. "Bacon's major contribution to the development of science lies in his natural philosophy, his philosophy of scientific method, and in his projects for the practical organization of science. During the last years of his life, he expounded these ideas in a series of works, of which the Twoo bookes was the first. The only work Bacon ever published in English, it was later expanded and latinized into De augmentis scientiarum (1623). In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology. While preserving the traditional distinction between knowledge obtained by divine revelation and knowledge acquired through the senses, Bacon saw both theoretical and applied science as religious duties, the first for a greater knowledge of God through his creation, and the second for the practice of charity to one's fellows by improving their condition. This view of science as a religious function maintained its authority throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and was an important factor in the public success of the scientific movement" (Norman Library). Gibson 81. Grolier/Horblit 8a. Norman Library 97. Pforzheimer 36. STC 1164. HBS 68825. $11,000.

Morocco. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. First Edition Thus. The RARE 1825 Basil Montagu edited edition, in a fine contemporary binding, signed Proudfoot Binder, of full black crushed morocco, front cover bordered by single gilt fillet, central gilt tooled decoration of the Aldine Dolphin and Anchor trademark of Pickering and Basil Montagu bordered by a gilt fillet and corner emblems, the rear cover the same except no central anchor, back lettered in gilt, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, with an appropriate period bookplate, artist A. Wyon, featuring a man writing at his desk in his library while a skeletal figure (representing Death) in the background plays a xylophone. The Latin inscription on the bookplate reads " stulte hac nocte repetunt animam tuam et quae parasti, cuius erunt?" This is part of a quotation from the Book of Luke, and translates "`Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations--for whom shall they be?". Book is Near fine, light foxing throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. xvi, 302 pp. Full dark brown morocco with gilt lettering to the spine and blind decoration to the spine and boards. With gilt turns in and all edges gilt. Contains a fold out contents page, formatted as a mind-map diagram. A little rubbing to the spine and boards, and very occasionally spots to the leaves. Binding firm. 8vo.

First English edition of the expanded edition, second issue. 4:o. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, (34), 60, (14), 352, 351-477, (21) (irregular pagination) pp. Modern half calf. Frontispiece and title repaired, two leaves with marginal waterstain, one leaf with small marginal repair, a few stains but still overall a very good copy.

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626). Of the advancement and proficience of learning or the partitions of sciences . . . Interpreted by Gilbert Wats. [34], 477, [21]pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved title by Will. Marshall. Oxford: Leon Lichfield for Robert Young and E. Forrest, 1640. 282 x 186 mm. Blind-ruled calf ca. 1640, rebacked, free endpapers renewed, later spine label, a few minor scratches. Tear in leaf C1 repaired, occasional light dampstaining but very good. Early ownership signatures on the engraved title and dedication leaf; extensive notes on the front and back pastedowns on various subjects in one or more early hands. First Edition in English of Bacon's De augmentis scientarum (1623); second issue as usual, with the colophon dated 1640; variant reading on p. 21: "Scala Intellectus, or the method of the mind in the comprehension of things explained" (see Gibson, p. 123). In 1605 Bacon published The Twoo Bookes . . . of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, a work that marked the beginning of his "massive plan for the reorganization of the scientific method." Over the next twenty years Bacon greatly reworked his ideas, expanding them from "two books" into nine and publishing them in Latin in De augmentaris scientarum. "In De augmentis scientarum, which is concerned primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences, Bacon develops his influential view of the relation between science and theology. He distinguishes in traditional fashion between knowledge by divine revelation and knowledge by the senses, and divides the latter into natural theology, natural philosophy and the sciences of man" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). Bacon saw both theoretical and applied science as religious duties, the first for a greater knowledge of God through his creation, and the second for the practice of charity to one's fellows by improving their condition. This view of science as a religious function maintained its authority throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and was an important factor in the public success of the scientific movement. The pastedown endpapers in this copy contain extensive manuscript notes or extracts in one or more early hand on various subjects: "Concerning Mr. Suttons Hospitall called the Charter House in London. In the life & death of Doctor Willets synopsis edition 5 printed 1637 it appeared that he solicited that old gentlemen Mr. Sutton to yt heroic work. . . "(front pastedown). "In the 3. yeare of King Charles Io reign there were apprehended a company of Jesuits in Clarkenwell at a house designed for a colledge of that order . . . In 1634 A Parlt & Synod was calld in Ireland . . . The insolent deportment of ye Queens ffrench attendants . . ." (rear pastedown). Gibson, Francis Bacon: A Bibliography, 141b. .