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Advancement of Learning. Novum Organum. New Atlantis. by Francis Bacon
Call Number: AC1 .G786 v.30
Advancement of Learning and Novum organum by Francis Bacon
Call Number: B1173.E5 .C74 [1899]
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall by Francis Bacon
Call Number: PR2206 .K53 1985

ISBN: 0674317408

Edited with introduction and commentary by Michael Kiernan.
Essays by Francis Bacon
Call Number: PR2206 .A3 1886
Essays, Advancement of learning, New Atlantis and other pieces by Francis Bacon
Call Number: B1155 1937a
Essays, Civil and Moral ; The new Atlantis by Francis Bacon
Call Number: AC1 .H339 v.3

Also Includes: Areopagitica and Tractate on education / by John Milton. Religio medici / by Sir Thomas Browne ; with introductions and notes.
The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Call Number: PR2206 .N878 1936
Four Island Utopias by Diskin Clay, Andrea Purvis.
Call Number: HX806 .F59 1999

being Plato's Atlantis ; Euhemeros of Messene's Panchaia ; Iamboulos' Island of the sun ; Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis ; with a supplement, Utopian prototypes, developments, and variations / Diskin Clay, Andrea Purvis.
Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Call Number: PR2205 .V53 1996

ISBN: 0192820257

Edited by Brian Vickers
The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh by Francis Bacon
Call Number: DA330 .B12 1996

ISBN: 0801430674
Ideal Commonwealths by Henry Morley
Call Number: HX806 .I19

Comprising More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the sun, and Harrington's Oceans, with introductions by Henry Morley ...
Letters, Speeches, Charges, Advices, &c. of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Original Letters and Memoirs by Francis Bacon
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library

written by the Lord Chancellor Bacon, during the reign of King James I ... ; corrected and published with remarks by Robert Stephens
Selected Writings (Francis Bacon) by Francis Bacon
Call Number: B1155 1955

With an introd. and notes by Hugh G. Dick.
The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
The works of Francis Bacon... by Francis Bacon
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library

Collected and ed. by James Spedding ... Robert Leslie Ellis ... and Douglas Denon Heath ...

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