Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir. The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To which is prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. 3 folding engraved plates. xiv, [2], 376 pages. 4to, contemporary calf gilt with unidentified crowned monogram on covers, rebacked with morocco, front joint cracked, cords intact; plates lightly offset, title and last page toned, scattered minor foxing, front free endpaper lacking. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Daniel Rogers, Esq. London: J. Tonson et al., 1728

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first edition of Newton's attempt to employ astronomical principles to verify the chronology of ancient history. Babson 214; DSB X, 82; Wallis 309.