BACON, Francis
A REVOLUTIONARY COPY
Novum Organum Scientiarum
Leiden, Adrian Wyngaerden, 1650£1,250.00
12mo. (xxiv) 404. Roman and italic letter, woodcut initial, head- and tail-pieces, engraved title page of ship between the Pillars of Hercules. Light age yellowing, good, well-margined copy in contemporary calf with panels triple-ruled in blind. Shelf mark to pastedown, later label to spine, speckled edges. Acquisition note of E. Poore 1760.
Enoch Poore (1736-1780), born and raised in Andover Massachusetts, was a Revolutionary War hero, commanding regiments at the battles of Lexington, Crown Point, and Stillwater, before joining Washington at Philadelphia to fight in the New Jersey campaign. After surviving the infamously brutal winter at Valley Forge, Poore fought valiantly under Lafayette at the Battle of Monmouth.
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