BACON, Francis. Sylva Sylvarum, or a Natural History in Ten Centuries. London: by J.F. for William Lee, 1651. Sixth edition. [Bound with:] The New Atlantis… a Work Unfinished. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1651?] Small folio (288 x 175mm.) Additional engraved title, dedication, 'Table of the Experiments'. (Lacking portrait frontispiece to first work, additional title and title laid-down with loss, some loss to E6, initial blank bound-in after title.) Later red cloth-backed covers (front and rear endpapers replaced, rear blank lacking). Provenance: Henry Shank, a director of the East India Company (ink name inscribed on initial blank). - And a further volume (volume IV and V of Thomas Bankes', E.W. Blake and Alexander Cook's 'A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Geography', [n.d. circa 1790's], folio) (2).