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NEWTON, Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica , edited by Henry Pemberton, London: apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726, 4°, third edition, title in red and black, engraving of cometary orbit on p. 506, numerous woodcut diagrams, with the privilege on the verso of first leaf and advertisement leaf at end (lacking the engraved portrait of Newton, title slightly soiled, dedication with perforation stamp and ink stamp on verso, accession number at foot of following page, short marginal tears to F4 and 2E4, some light marginal spotting and occasional soiling), later half morocco (worn, section of spine lacking at head). [Babson 12; Brunet IV, 49: "Edition la plus estimée de cet ouvrage immortel"; Honeyman 2304; Wallis 9] Provenance : JCL