NEWTON, Isaac. The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series with application to the geometry of curve-lines, translated by John Colson, London: printed by Henry Woodfall and sold by John Nourse, 1736, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece (intended to face p. 273), errata slip with advertisement on verso bound in after T1 (frontispiece lightly browned, b3 with section of outer margin almost torn away, lacking the blank called for by Babson), contemporary calf (joints cracked, wear to lower cover, gilt library stamps). [Babson 171; Brunet IV, 50; Honeyman 2327; Wallis 232] Provenance: James Plunkett Earl of Fingall (armorial bookplate); JCL

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NEWTON, Isaac. The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series with application to the geometry of curve-lines, translated by John Colson, London: printed by Henry Woodfall and sold by John Nourse, 1736, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece (intended to face p. 273), errata slip with advertisement on verso bound in after T1 (frontispiece lightly browned, b3 with section of outer margin almost torn away, lacking the blank called for by Babson), contemporary calf (joints cracked, wear to lower cover, gilt library stamps). [Babson 171; Brunet IV, 50; Honeyman 2327; Wallis 232] Provenance: James Plunkett Earl of Fingall (armorial bookplate); JCL

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A CLEAN COPY with no internal library markings. Wallis appears to call for a folding plate in addition to a frontispiece, but this is not called for by Babson and is not present in the Honeyman copy.

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