NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). A Treatise of the System of the World, London: F. Fayram, 1728, 8° (194 x 118mm.), FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams in the text (occasional light soiling), contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid down). [Babson 18; Norman 1593; Sotheran I, 3248; Wallis 30].

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NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). A Treatise of the System of the World, London: F. Fayram, 1728, 8° (194 x 118mm.), FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams in the text (occasional light soiling), contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid down). [Babson 18; Norman 1593; Sotheran I, 3248; Wallis 30].

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Watkins, ownership inscription to front free endpaper.

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The first English translation of De mundi systemate originally intended to form the third book of the Principia. The Latin text was also first published in the same year, and it is not known which has priority. The translator was probably Andrew Motte.

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