The historie of life and death With observations naturall and experimentall for the prolonging of life. Written by the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount S. Alban - Bacon, Francis 1561-1626 (Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-Yard, 1638)
Anonymous translation of "Historia vitae et mortis". The foreword to the edition printed later the same year by John Haviland calls this translation "lame, and defective, in the whole". - Reproduciton of the original in Cambridge University Library. - STC (2nd ed.), 1157. - The second section of part 3 of Bacon's projected "Instauration magna". - With an initial imprimatur leaf and an additional title page, engraved