Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 156

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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, 234x181 mm, modern red morocco; lower outer corner of contents bumped, light marginal dampstaining toward beginning, minor worming in blank lower inner corners or lower margins in first half of volume, light soiling on title. Amsterdam: sumptibus Societatis, 1723

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Fourth edition, unauthorized, and the only edition of the Principia to reprint 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).