De mundi systemate liber

by Sir Isaac Newton

$65,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: J. Tonson, J. Osborn & T. Longman, 1728. First edition of Newton’s rarest book — the discarded first draft of what would become Book III of Principia, posthumously published in the year following his death — and an extraordinary association copy in contemporary panelled calf, inscribed on the front pastedown by James Stirling: “Ja: Stirling Ex Dono Dni De Moivre”. The inscription records the

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