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NEWTON, Isaac. Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves, translated and edited by John Stewart, London: by James Bettenham and sold by John Nourse, 1745, 4°, FIRST EDITION (title, preliminaries and quire 2I wormed at lower margin, light waterstains and occasional soiling), modern blue buckram [Babson 210; Wallis 303] Provenance: JCL -- Henry PEMBERTON (1694-1771). A View of sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, London: by S. Palmer, 1728, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 12 folding engraved plates, 12 engraved vignettes and tailpieces and 5 initials by J. Pine after J. Grison (library markings, *B1-B1 badly torn and crumpled, though there is no loss, L1 with hole at upper margin, block split at Y1, paper fault at lower margin of Z2), contemporary calf (worn, crudely rebacked) [Babson 50; Honeyman 2442; Wallis 132] Provenance: Edward Suter, gifted to J. Pollard, 1858, by descent to Catherine E. Pollard ((inscription on front blank); JCL -- Humphry DITTON. An Institution of Fluxions, edited by John Clarke, London: by W. Botham for James and John Knapton, 1726, 8°, second edition, title in red and black, diagrams (library markings), later half cloth [Wallis 251.01]; and another work by Colin Maclaurin. (4)