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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. x, [4], 378 pages. 8vo, 200x125 mm, modern 1/4 calf; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end with traces of mold, minor marginal restoration on title and next leaf. Dublin: S. Powell for George Risk et al., 1728
first dublin edition of Newton's attempt to employ astronomical principles to verify the chronology of ancient history. Babson 214 (London original edition, same year); DSB X, 82; Wallis 310 (this edition).
