Lot n° 1305

Chronology - NEWTON, Isaac - Abregé de la chronologie de M. le Chevalier Isaac Newton, fait par lui-même, & traduit sur le manuscrit anglois [by Nicolas Fréret]. Paris, G. Cavelier, 1725

Estimation : 1000 / 1000
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
[10]-62-[2] pp. (paper age-toned, minor staining or spotting) [bound after] PRIDEAUX, Humphrey - Histoire des Juifs et des peuples voisins, depuis la décadence des Royaumes d’Israël & de Juda jusqu’à la mort de Jesus-Christ (...) Tome premier (- septième) [trsl. from the English]. Amsterdam, H. du Sauzet, 1726, cxliv-427-[1], 384, 466, xxiv-464, 526, 343-[1], 147-[1] pp., 2 works in 7 vols., 12mo, cont. sheep (some sl. rubbed, sm. def.), richly gilt spines on 5 raised bands with red labels (some joints starting to split), gilt sides, red edges, marbl. endpapers, green silk markers. Very good set. 1. “The first appearance in print of Newton’s system of chronology, subsequently translated into English [1728]” (Wallis). Ref. Wallis (Newton) 312. BnF. Not in BL. Cp. Conlon 25:577 (collation differs). - 2. 2nd ed. (1st 1722) of the French trsl. of “The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews” by the English theologian H. Prideaux (1648-1724). Engr. ills : 6 fronts, 1 portrait, 4 maps, 8 pls outside collation. Vol. 7 contains, apart from the text of Newton , a "Table chronologique" and a "Table des matières" (pp. 93-244), followed by a stocklist “Catalogue des livres qui se trouvent à Paris chez Guillaume Cavelier (...) 1726” (25 ff.). 18th-c. bookpls ('Le Marquis ...’, name erased). Bookseller’s stamp.
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