NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, edited by Henry Pemberton (1694-1771). London: William & John Innys, 1726.
NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, edited by Henry Pemberton (1694-1771). London: William & John Innys, 1726.

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NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, edited by Henry Pemberton (1694-1771). London: William & John Innys, 1726.

4° (281 x 223mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after Vanderbank, text diagrams. Without the half-title and advertisement leaf as expected for a specially-bound copy, but with the privilege leaf. 19th-century calf tooled in gilt, spine with red leather label and lettered at foot 'EX DONO J.B. JANUARY 1877', gilt edges (discreet repairs to joints and corners). Provenance: graduation gift of John Babington to James Parker Smith, Trinity College, Cambs. (1854-1929, 4th Smith of Jordanhill, barrister, MP for Partick, and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Joseph Chamberlain; presentation note dated 12 April 1877 mounted on pastedown).

LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION, THE LAST PUBLISHED IN THE AUTHOR'S LIFETIME, with his revisions, thereby establishing the definitive text for all subsequent editions. This edition contains a new preface by Newton, numerous alterations, most notably in the scholium on fluxions, and a new section on the motion of the lunar nodes. The edition was printed in 3 impressions: ordinary copies, copies on large paper, and copies on extra-large paper. The present copy belongs to the middle impression, printed in about 200 copies (cf. Todd in the Koyré and Cohen edition, p.854). Babson 13-14; Wallis 9.

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