Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 80
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
GREENE, ROBERT. The Principles of Natural Philosophy, in which is shewn the Insuffiency of the Present Systems, to give us any Just Account of that Science: And the Necessity there is of some New Principles, in order to furnish us with a True and Real Knowledge of Nature.<> Folding woodcut plate. [70], 391 pages * Geometria solidorum, sive materiae; seu, De varia compositione, progressione, rationeque velocitatum.<> [8], 38, [2] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, heavily worn, front cover detached; margins trimmed close, just grazing a few sidenotes in the first work. Armorial bookplate of the politician Sir John Anstruther, Bart. (1753-1811), on verso of title to first work. first editions.<> Cambridge: University Press for Edm. Jeffery, 1712