Sylva sylvarum / The life of the right honourable Francis Bacon / History natural and experimental / Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals by Francis Bacon - 1669

[four works in one volume] Sylva sylvarum, or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added, the history natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. Published after the authors death, by William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, one of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And the new Atlantis. Written by the right honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. The ninth and last edition, with an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries. London: printed by J[ohn]. R[edmayne]. for William Lee, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London, 1670. 2°. [16], 14, 215, [29], 64, [2], 221-227, [1], 31, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates: ill., port.; ESTC R227991 Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), B331.
"History natural and experimental" has a separate title page, with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669."; with separate pagination and register. "Articles of enquiry, touching metals & minerals" has separate title page with imprint "printed for VVilliam Lee ... 1669." with separate register; text begins on p. 221. "New Atlantis. A vvork unfinished." (divisional title page) has separate pagination and register.
The additional engraved title page noted in ESTC is missing. The title page and several other pages are loose but still attached. Ownership stamp and 19th century bookplate on boards. 17th/18th century ownership signatures by Bell Pomfrett and John Marckell? Nicely tooled leather binding, hinges loose.