NEWTON, Isaac. Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle, translated by Gabrielle Emilie de Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, Paris: chez Desaint & Saillant, Lambert, 1759, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 14 folding engraved plates, typographical decorations (half titles and titles to both volumes a little browned at margins, some light marginal spotting of text), contemporary mottled calf gilt (gilt library stamp to one corner of front covers, library labels superimposed in one compartment of gilt spines), marbled edges, original pink silk book-markers [Babson 28; Brunet IV, 49; Honeyman 2314; Wallis 38] Provenance: JCL (2)

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NEWTON, Isaac. Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle, translated by Gabrielle Emilie de Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, Paris: chez Desaint & Saillant, Lambert, 1759, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 14 folding engraved plates, typographical decorations (half titles and titles to both volumes a little browned at margins, some light marginal spotting of text), contemporary mottled calf gilt (gilt library stamp to one corner of front covers, library labels superimposed in one compartment of gilt spines), marbled edges, original pink silk book-markers [Babson 28; Brunet IV, 49; Honeyman 2314; Wallis 38] Provenance: JCL (2)

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According to Babson, our copy lacks 2H³-⁴ in volume I but the text appears complete and the pagination is continuous. This is AN ATTRACTIVE COPY with no internal signs of institutional ownership. Newton's name is omitted from the title. The Marquise du Châtelet, as translator, contributed an interesting Préface historique, and the work itself is divided into two parts, the first a translation of the 1726 edition of the Principia, the second a commentary on some of the principles relative to the system of the world, chiefly taken from the works of M. Clairaut, tutor to the brilliant Marquise.

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