$6,000
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica . Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. Quarto, Amsterdam variant of the second (Cambridge) edition, with additions and revisions; folding table between pages 464 and 465, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, illustrated with text diagrams throughout, armorial bookplate of the Blouet de Camilly family, light age-toning to contents; bound in full contemporary speckled calfskin, gilt-tooled spine and label, leather at front joint starting to crack, 8 x 10 in. Newton's Principia contains his principle of universal gravitation, his three laws of motion, and the corpuscular theory of light.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
