Sylva sylvarum: or a naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban / Published after the author's death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, one of his Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke.

  • Francis Bacon
Date:
1635
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Credit: Sylva sylvarum: or a naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban / Published after the author's death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, one of his Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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