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NEWTON (ISAAC)
La methode des fluxions

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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NEWTON (ISAAC)

La methode des fluxions, first French edition, title printed in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials and diagrams, privilege leaf at end, some browning, faded ink stamp on title, early ink emendations to text, contemporary French mottled calf, spine with gilt floral motifs, joints repaired and cracking at head [Babson 173; Walis 236], 4to, Paris, De Bure l'aîné, 1728

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The first and only French edition, translated by George Louis Le Clerc, Count de Buffon.

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