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Bacon, Sir Francis. Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries. London: Printed by J.H. for William Lee, 1631. Third edition. Bound with the second part, paginated separately, The New Atlantis; a Work Unfinished. Period-style paneled imitation calf, new endpapers. With the additional pictorial engraved title, engraved head pieces, lacking portrait frontis. Folio. Manuscript ex-libris to title, occasional spotting and marginal dampstaining, rust marks and other light wear. The third edition of Bacon’s work on natural magic and scientific experiments, containing an anecdote of a magician who forces a spectator to think of a certain card, and who makes two garters of the same length appear longer than one another.