Lot Essay
Coste had fled to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His work contributed to the introduction of English thought into 18th-century France.
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NEWTON, Isaac. Traité d'Optique, translated by Coste, Amsterdam: Pierre Humbert, 1720, 2 volumes in one, 12°, 12 folding engraved plates, contemporary vellum. [Babson 139 (calls for only 5 plates); Wallis 186]