Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica /
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3187986
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 484, [8]p ; 4to. Minor pencil text marking on final leaves. Bookseller's pencil note on front pastedown: "tooled & polished". Provenance: label with eighteenth-century ink inscription affixed to rear pastedown: pret. s d 18:0 ; eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; blind tooled; rebacked.
Makers and roles
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), author