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Newton, Isaac OPTICKS: OR, A TREATISE OF THE REFLEXIONS, REFRACTIONS, INFLEXIONS AND COLOURS OF LIGHT. ALSO TWO TREATISES OF THE SPECIES AND MAGNITUDE OF CURVILINEAR FIGURES. LONDON: FOR SAMUEL SMITH AND BENJAMIN WALFORD, 1704 4to (234 x 178mm.), title printed in red and black, 19 engraved plates, modern smooth calf, plates slightly shaved [with, loosely inserted:] Autograph manuscript fragment, containing notes on the position of stars and constellations on the recto ("..And by the sac [sic?] [Aries] 19.26.8. And that of Aldeboran And that of Spica [Virgo] [space] & that of Aecturus [space] And so of the rest of the fixt stars. counting these not from the middes of the signes but from the Vernal Equinox. [calculation]..."), with mathematical calculations on the verso, 2 pages, 40 x 185mm., small tear at corner