Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343

Sale 2343 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 27,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir. Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves, and Analysis by Equations of an Infinite Number of Terms, Explained. English translation by John Stewart. Woodcut text diagrams; engraved tailpiece at end by William Kent after Virtue. xxxii, 479, [5] pages, including 2 leaves of errata at end. 4to, 265x203 mm, contemporary black morocco, spine attractively gilt with red morocco lettering piece; contents crisp and clean; sprinkled red edges. Macclesfield embossed stamp on title and next leaf; armorial bookplate of the South Library at Shirburn Castle. This lot is not from the Gutzwiller collection. London: J. Bettenham for the Society for the Encouragement of Learning et al., 1745

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first edition in english, limited to 350 copies, of the mathematical appendixes to Newton's 1704 Optice. Babson 210; DSB X, 50-51; Wallis 303.