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Newton (Sir Isaac) Opera quae exstant omnia, 5 vol., edited by Samuel Horsley, half-titles to all but vol. 4, 2 folding engraved tables, 32 engraved plates and plans, of which 3 folding, woodcut diagrams, vol. 1 with blank leaves 3D2 & 4C1, vol. 1 & 4 with corrigenda leaves at end, lacking blank Y4 to vol. 3 and final blank to vol. 5, half-titles/vol. 4 title guarded, very occasional spotting or light browning, occasional light soiling, water-staining to head, mainly to vol. 1 and 5 and very occasionally elsewhere, ex-library copies with small ink-stamp to titles, modern half cloth, library sticker to foot of upper covers, [Babson 8], 4to, J. Nichols, 1779-85.

First and only collected edition of Newton's works. "This edition is by no means complete…but it is a very full collection of original texts issued in book form. It is the first to contain his important Geometria Analytica. Additions include Newton’s only printed chemical paper De Natura Acidum, a number of his letters, and, for the first time, the original text of the unfinished Methodus Fluxionum" (Babson). Copies are recorded with a portrait, not here present and likely not called for in this edition.

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Newton (Sir Isaac) Opera quae exstant omnia, 5 vol., edited by Samuel Horsley, half-titles to all but vol. 4, 2 folding engraved tables, 32 engraved plates and plans, of which 3 folding, woodcut diagrams, vol. 1 with blank leaves 3D2 & 4C1, vol. 1 & 4 with corrigenda leaves at end, lacking blank Y4 to vol. 3 and final blank to vol. 5, half-titles/vol. 4 title guarded, very occasional spotting or light browning, occasional light soiling, water-staining to head, mainly to vol. 1 and 5 and very occasionally elsewhere, ex-library copies with small ink-stamp to titles, modern half cloth, library sticker to foot of upper covers, [Babson 8], 4to, J. Nichols, 1779-85.

First and only collected edition of Newton's works. "This edition is by no means complete…but it is a very full collection of original texts issued in book form. It is the first to contain his important Geometria Analytica. Additions include Newton’s only printed chemical paper De Natura Acidum, a number of his letters, and, for the first time, the original text of the unfinished Methodus Fluxionum" (Babson). Copies are recorded with a portrait, not here present and likely not called for in this edition.

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