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NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . . . editio ultima.Cui accedit Analysis per Quantitatum series, fluxiones ac differentias cum enumeratione linearum tertii ordinis. 3 folding engraved plates; woodcut text diagrams. [28], 484, [8]; [12], 107 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 254x198 mm, contemporary Dutch vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers and spine title in ink, binding somewhat shaken and soiled; scattered minor spotting, occasional marginal toning, last few leaves foxed, inscription on front free abraded with resulting small holes. This lot is not from the Gutzwiller collection. Amsterdam: sumptibus Societatis, 1723
Second Amsterdam edition, and the only edition of the Principia to include the text of the 1711 Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias, "Newton's first independent treatise on the higher mathematics, containing his invention of the calculus" (Babson). Wallis 12 (this edition of the Principia); Babson 207 (original edition of the Analysis).
