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Histoire naturelle de Mre. Francois Bacon ...
This book contains a version of Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, and an edited translation of New Atlantis (called, in the translation, Nouvel Atlas), both supplemented by prefaces of the translator and a Life of Bacon that is, probably, the first ever to appear in print.
Collection of English Restoration plays, poetry, and other works
Autograph manuscript in two unknown hands. Libertine works; prose orations; political and satirical texts by Marvell, Oldham, and Rochester; love poems by Crashaw, Etheredge, and Sedley. May have originated as distinct books that were bound into a single volume, each book separated by blank leaves. The manuscript was put together by an unknown compiler between 1670 and 1680.
Prospetto d[ell']alma città di Roma visto dal Monte Gianicolo: f. sotto gli avspicj della Sac. Maestà Cattol.
Giuseppe Vasi's panoramic view of Rome seen from Monte Gianicolo looking northeast from Saint Peter's Basilica in the north (left) to the Fonte dell'acqua Paola in the east (right).