Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BARROW, ISAAC. Geometrical Lectures: Explaining the Generation, Nature and Properties of Curve Lines. English translation by Edmund Stone. 11 folding engraved plates. [4], vi, 309, [3] pages, including engraved additional title. 8vo, 198x124 mm, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked; plates foxed, text crisp and clean, (blank?) lower outer corner torn off last plate. Bookplate of Albert Edgar Lownes. London: Stephen Austen, 1735

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first edition in english of the geometrical portion of Barrow's 1669-70 Lectiones, his Cambridge lectures on optics and geometry, edited by Sir Isaac Newton, his pupil and successor there as Lucasian professor of mathematics. Babson 250; Wallis 358.6.