[Rare Francis Bacon edition] Francisci de Verulamio Historia Naturalis

et Experimentalis de Ventis etc. Leiden, Apud F. Hegerum et Hackium, 1638, (28),340,32 p., with engraved title page, contemporary overlapping vellum, 18mo.

Rare and early Leiden edition, in a beautiful condition. The later editions by Hackius (1648) and by Elsevier (1648 and 1662) are much more common. The first edition appeared in London in 1622.