Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
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. xxxii, 479, [5] pages, including 2 leaves of errata at end. 4to, 261x204 mm, contemporary sheep with leather lettering piece, badly worn, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; dampstain in lower outer corners through much of volume, faint dampstain along upper fore edge of first few leaves, light soiling on title and occasionally in upper margins, infrequent light foxing, errata leaves toned. 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 Latin mathematical appendixes to Newton's 1704 Opticks. Babson 210; DSB X, 50-51; Wallis 303.