The Works of Francis Bacon, baron of Verulam, viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England (15 volume set)

Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley,

Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1861

15 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Some gutters starting. Owner's name on front end pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 
Francis Bacon was the lord chancellor of England (1618-21). A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays; by students of constitutional history for his power as a speaker in Parliament and in famous trials and as James I's lord chancellor; and intellectually as a man who claimed all knowledge as his province and, after a magisterial survey, urgently advocated new ways by which man might establish a legitimate command over nature for the relief of his estate. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).