Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
NEWTON, SIR ISAAC. 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 (variously foxed, with repairable clean tears, except for small hole in blank portion of the third). xiv, [2], 376 pages. 4to, modern buckram; heavy foxing at beginning and end, portion of blank lower margin torn from A2. London: J. Tonson et al., 1728

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first edition. "Newton attempts to determine the dates of ancient events from astronomical considerations and indicates the manner in which astronomy might be used to verify the views on the chronological points derived in the main from Ptolemy, which were held in his time"--Babson 214.