English: Front page of a 1651 copy of Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. This copy is located at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives at the American Institute of Physics in College Park, Maryland. There are 9 preliminary leaves, 218, [19] pages, 3 leaves, 36 pages, 4 leaves, 64 pages frontispiece (portrait) 29 cm in this copy.

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Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life. Both written by the Right Honourable Francis lo. Verulam viscount St Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Rawley ... Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the ten centuries.