First Edition of a Selection of Excerpts from Newton's "Principia"
Excerpta Quaedam. e Newtoni Principiis Philosophiae Naturalis, Cum Notis Variorum.
Cambridge: J. Bentham, 1765.
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[NEWTON, Sir Isaac]. Excerpta Quaedam. e Newtoni Principiis Philosophiae Naturalis, Cum Notis Variorum. Cambridge: J. Bentham, 1765.
First edition of a selection of excerpts from Newton's "Principia." Subscriber's copy. Quarto (9 3/4 x 8 inches; 248 x 200 mm). [ix, list of subscribers], [1, corrigenda], 180 pp. With twelve engraved folding plates and commentary on Newton’s text by three Cambridge scholars.
Modern full red morocco. Newer marbled endpapers. Binding with some mild rubbing. Some dampstaining along outer lower and fore-edge margins. Title-page and leaf a4 (Subscribers) have been remargined at inner margin. Leaf Y4 and Plate XI remargined at fore-edge, not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.
Excerpts for subscribers from "the greatest work in the history of science" (PMM).
PMM 161. Babson 15.
HBS 69380.
$1,500.
Price: $1,500.00
Item #69380