NEWTON, I.

Opticks

London: Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1704. Two parts in one. 4to. [iv], 144; 211, [1] pp., including errata. FIRST EDITION. Title printed in red and black. With 19 folding engraved plates; the first 2 are in facsimile. Later cloth with gilt decorations on covers. Preserved in a folding clamshell box. From the library of Stillman Drake, with his bookplate (loose), on which he presented this copy to his “valuable friend and invaluable colleague, Jed Buchwald.”. Item #15420

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