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Francisci Baconi ... Opera omnia quae extant, philosophica, moralia, politica, historica ... : in quibus complures alii tractatus, quos brevitatis causa praetermittere visum est, comprehensi sunt, hactenus nunquam conjunctim edita, jam vero summo studio collecta, uno volumine comprehensa, & ab innumeris mendis repurgata: cum indice rerum ac verborum universali absolutissimo. His praefixa est auctoris vita

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL · 1665 · Francofurti ad Moenum : Impensis Joannis Baptistae Schonwetteri · 10 pictures

A 1665 Latin collected edition of Francis Bacon's philosophical, moral, political and historical works, published in Frankfurt am Main by Johann Baptist Schönwetter and held in the John Adams library at the Boston Public Library. The pictures are woodcut ornaments and a figure print: repeated scrollwork cartouches with masks and foliage, plus a robed bearded figure in a winged design. A designer could take the dense interlaced strapwork and symmetrical cartouche framing as models for decorative panels.

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