NINE BOOKS

OF THE

DIGNITY

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

and Historiographer to the King.

Woodcut printer's device depicting an olive tree in a rural landscape with a banner or scroll woven through its branches and a man standing next to the trunk. This mark is historically associated with the Estienne family of printers.

IN PARIS,

By JACQUES DUGUAY, 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.

M. DC. XXXII.

WITH THE KING'S PRIVILEGE.