The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

by Isaac Newton

$148,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1729. First edition. First edition in English of Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 1687 . Two volumes, octavo leaves 194 x 120 mm collating: 38 , 320; 2 , 393, 13 , viii, 71 , 1 errata; complete. With the engraved allegorical frontispieces and engraved headpieces by the translator, forty-seven engraved folding plates, and two

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