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GREGORY, DAVID. Astronomiae physicae & geometricae elementa. Secunda editio revisa & correcta. Engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Louis d'Orléans, and 48 folding plates; folding letterpress table. [22], xcvi, [2], 427, [1]; [4], 429-751, [1], 74, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece, 2 integral blanks, and final leaf of binder's instructions. 2 volumes. 4to, 270x212 mm, contemporary stiff wrappers with spine titles in ink, soiled, contents loose in bindings; occasional foxing or browning, portrait and some portions of text heavily browned. Modern stamp of Paolo Gnerucci of Cortona. Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet et Socii, 1726
"The first textbook of astronomy on Newtonian principles" (Gascoigne), first published in 1702. Babson 71 (original edition); BEA, page 441; DSB V, 521; Gascoigne 385; Houzeau & Lancaster 9240; Wallis 87.1 (this edition).
