NINE BOOKS

OF THE

DIGNITY

AND OF THE

ADVANCEMENT

OF THE SCIENCES,

COMPOSED BY FRANCIS

BACON, BARON OF VERULAM
& Viscount of Saint Albans.

AND TRANSLATED FROM LATIN INTO FRENCH

by the Sieur de Golefer, Councilor
& Historiographer to the King.

Printer's device of the Estienne family: a large olive tree with a man standing on the right, pointing upwards toward the branches. A banner entwined in the tree's foliage contains the Latin motto "NOLI ALTVM SAPERE" original: "Be not high-minded". Several branches on the left side appear to be broken or falling.

IN PARIS,

By JACQUES DUGAST, on Saint Iean de Beauvais street, at the sign of Robert Estienne's Olive Tree, & in his shop at the bottom of La Harpe street.

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WITH THE KING'S PRIVILEGE.