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3 parts in 4 volumes 4to (265 x 215 mm) XXXV, 548 pp. for volume I; 4 nn.ll., 422 pp., 1 nn.l. for volume II; 4 nn.ll., XXVIII, 374 pp. for volume III/1; VIII, pp. [375]- 703 for volume III/2. Contemporary blue wrappers (spines broken), in modern red-morocco backed slipcase.
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Gray, 13 ; Wallis, 13. See PMM, 161 & Horblit, 78 (for the first edition 1678).
The first so-called “Jesuit” edition, despite the fact that it was edited by the Minim friars. It is based on the third edition of Newton’s Principia (1687) – the last to be corrected by the author himself – and was edited by Thomas Le Seur (1703-1770), François Jacquier (1711-1788), both French priests, and Jean-Louis Calandrini (1703-1758), a Swiss mathematician. This edition is particularly interesting for its important commentaries by Jean-Louis Calandrini. In addition to the Principia, the last volume contains works by Bernouilli (Traité sur le Flux et Reflux de la mer), Maclaurin (De Causa Physica Fluxus et Refluxus Maris), and Euler (Inquisitio physica in causam Fluxus ac Refluxus Maris).
“These three works gained the Prize given by the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1724 for resolving the problem relating to the motion of the tides from the theory of gravity” (Gray).
Marginal waterstain at last portion of volume I, some toning.
Good copy, entirely uncut, with full margins and deckle edges.
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