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NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). Arithmetica Universalis sive de Compositione et Resolutione Arithmetica liber, edited by G.J.'s Gravesande, Leyden: apud Joh. et Herm. Verbeek, 1732, 4°, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 13 folding engraved plates (plates and text browned, 2G2 with lower outer corner torn away), contemporary speckled calf with gilt spine (spine a little wormed at head and foot, corners rubbed) [Babson 204; Honeyman 2330; Wallis 279]; and 8 other volumes by Newton, comprising the 1761 Amsterdam edition of the same work in 2 volumes, a wormed copy of the first French edition of La Methode des Fluxions (Paris, 1740), the Tractatus de Quadratura Curvarum (Upsala, 1762) and two incomplete sets of the Principia (Geneva, 1739-42, vols. I & III(part one) and Geneva, 1760, vols. II-III only). (9)