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NEWTON, Isaac. Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures, London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1704, 4°, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 19 folding engraved plates (perforation stamp on title, Dd2 and Dd3, cancel stamp on verso of title, accession number at foot of advertisement leaf, first few corners chewed, marginal tear with resultant loss at foot of Kk4, worming to foot of Qq1-Yy1, becoming severe from Tt1, paper fault on Bbb1 affecting text, a few plates stamped on verso), library cloth, John Crerar endpapers. [Babson 132; Sparrow 150; Wallis 174]