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Cotes was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton's who proofread the second edition of the <em>Principia</em>.
Cotes was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton's who proofread the second edition of the <em>Principia</em>.
Cotes was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton's who proofread the second edition of the <em>Principia</em>.

COTES, Roger; SMITH, Robert.

Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures.

Cambridge, Printed by J. Bentham, 1747.

£450.00
£450.00

Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures.

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Cotes was the first Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton's who proofread the second edition of the Principia. Newton famously said after his early death in 1933, 'If he had lived, we might have known something.'

Second edition; 8vo (21 x 14 cm); five engraved folding plates to rear, terminal advertisement leaf, p. 289 misprinted as 273, bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine rubbed with slight to head, boards ruled in gilt, edges sprinkled red, a very good copy.

ESTC T144320.

Stock code 122743

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Cotes was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton's who proofread the second edition of the <em>Principia</em>.

Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures.

£450.00
£450.00

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Fourth printing, an exceptional copy of Foundations of Potential Theory by Oliver Dimon Kellog, in a beautiful example of the dust jacket.
Fourth printing, an exceptional copy of Foundations of Potential Theory by Oliver Dimon Kellog, in a beautiful example of the dust jacket.

KELLOG, Oliver Dimon.
Foundations of Potential Theory. 1970.
£250.00

The first edition of philosopher Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples's condensed version of Boethius's De Arithmetica (On Arithmetic), published by Hneri Estienne in 1503.
The first edition of philosopher Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples's condensed version of Boethius's De Arithmetica (On Arithmetic), published by Hneri Estienne in 1503.

BOETHIUS; D'ÉTAPLE, Lefèvre; BOVELLES, J. & C.; CLICHTOVE, J.
Epitome compendiosaq(ue) introductio in libros Arithmeticos diui Seuerini Boetij: 1503.
The first edition of philosopher Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples's condensed version of Boethius's De Arithmetica (On Arithmetic), published by Hneri Estienne in 1503.
£7,500.00

First edition of the first work on the theory of matrices, Memoire on the Theory of Matrices, published in 1858 by the founder of the field, Arthur Cayley.
First edition of the first work on the theory of matrices, Memoire on the Theory of Matrices, published in 1858 by the founder of the field, Arthur Cayley.

CAYLEY, Arthur.
Memoire on the Theory of Matrices. 1858.
£2,000.00

First edition of Pierre Simon Laplace's Traité de Mécanique Céleste (Treatise on Celestial Mechanics), published between 1799 and 1825.
First edition of Pierre Simon Laplace's Traité de Mécanique Céleste (Treatise on Celestial Mechanics), published between 1799 and 1825.

LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, Marquis de.
Traité de Mécanique Céleste. AN VII [1799] - AN XI 1802; Courcier, AN XIII, 1805; Huzard-Courcier, AN XIII 1805; Bachelier, 1825.
'the sequel to newton'.
£15,000.00

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The very rare first edition of John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations... upon the Bills of Mortality, the 1662 book that founded demography and medical statistics.

GRAUNT, John.
Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, 1662.
£65,000.00

Second edition of Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres by Adrien Marie Legendre, with the first supplement.
Second edition of Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres by Adrien Marie Legendre, with the first supplement.

LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie.
Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres [with] Supplément a l'essai sur la Théorie des Nombres. 1808; 1816.
£2,000.00

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