Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. vi, [2], 323 pages. 4to, 249x196 mm, contemporary calf gilt, top of spine chipped, lettering piece off, joints cracked, cords intact; contents clean. Armorial bookplate of William Sedgwick, B.D., of Queens' College, Cambridge, on title verso, and 19th-century stamp of Queens College' Library on recto (released). wide-margined copy. London: J. Darby and T. Browne for J. Roberts et al., 1733

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first edition of Newton's principal work of scriptural exegesis. Babson 224; DSB X, 81; Wallis 328.