[NEWTON] COLLINS, John (1625-1683). Commercium epistolicum, London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1725, 8° (194 x 118mm.), second edition, second issue (title spotted, text lightly browned, marginal stain to B2 and B3), contemporary sprinkled calf (joints cracked but cords firmly holding, lacking spine label, extremities worn), Hopetoun bookplate. [Babson 187 note; Wallis 242.1] -- Israel LYONS. A Treatise of Fluxions, London: A. Millar & J. Fletcher, 1758, 8° (217 x 130mm.), FIRST EDITION, 7 folding engraved plates (library stamp to verso of title and last page of text, tears to inner gutter of title, some soiling), library cloth (spine faded). With one other work on Newton. (3)

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[NEWTON] COLLINS, John (1625-1683). Commercium epistolicum, London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1725, 8° (194 x 118mm.), second edition, second issue (title spotted, text lightly browned, marginal stain to B2 and B3), contemporary sprinkled calf (joints cracked but cords firmly holding, lacking spine label, extremities worn), Hopetoun bookplate. [Babson 187 note; Wallis 242.1] -- Israel LYONS. A Treatise of Fluxions, London: A. Millar & J. Fletcher, 1758, 8° (217 x 130mm.), FIRST EDITION, 7 folding engraved plates (library stamp to verso of title and last page of text, tears to inner gutter of title, some soiling), library cloth (spine faded). With one other work on Newton. (3)

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The first work is the supposedly impartial report of the Royal Society on the priority dispute between Newton and Leibniz, in fact written by Newton himself. First edition 1712, considerably augmented for the second edition, 1722, reissued 1725.

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