Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 1,105
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PEMBERTON, HENRY. A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. 12 folding engraved plates; 12 engraved vignettes by John Pine after J. Grison; 5 engraved decorative initials. [50], 407 pages. 4to, 282x218 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt with morocco lettering piece, extremities rubbed, front joint cracked, cords intact; internally crisp and clean. Bookplates of John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, one of the original subscribers, and Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie's, 17 April 2007, lot 406). wide-margined copy. London: S. Palmer, 1728

Additional Details

first edition. Pemberton was a friend of Newton and editor of the 1726 edition of the Principia. Babson 98; DSB X, 500-01; Wallis 132.