The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. . To which is prefix'd, A short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3026151
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv,[2],376p.,plates . 4to. Inserted leaf before title page with manuscript transcription of Newton's epitaph in Westminster Abbey. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: A/8 [pencil]; A.2.8 [dark blue ink]. Pencil "343" under ca. 1842 pencil shelfmark. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt tooling on spine and board edges, double gilt fillet and blind roll on covers, red sprinkled edges, brown spine label.
Makers and roles
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)