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NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir. A Treatise on the System of the World. 2 engraved plates. xxiv, 154, [2], 16 pages, including errata leaf and bookseller's catalogue at end. 8vo, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; contents crisp and generally quite clean, with contemporary corrections in ink on pages 43 and 53, small paper fault in blank outer margin of K2. Signature of H. Davis of Merton College, Oxford, dated 1769 on title. London: F. Fayram, 1728
first edition in english of De mundi systemate, an earlier version of the third part of the Principia, on astronomy, in which Newton states his law of universal gravitation; the Latin text was first published the same year. Babson 18; DSB X, 76; Wallis 30.
