INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL PHILOSOPHY BY JOHN KEILL 172O FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH

[KEILL, John (1671-1721)]. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: or, Philosophical Lectures Read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700. To Which are Added, the Demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens’s Theorems, Concerning the Centrifugal Force and Circular Motion. By John Keill M.D. Savilian professor of Astronomy. F.R.S. Translated from the last edition of the Latin. London: Printed by H.W. for William and John Innys, at the Prince’s-Arms in St. Paul’s Churchyard; and John Osborn, at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-street, M.DCC.XX. [1720].

First edition in English. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (20cm x 12cm x 2.5cm); pp. xii, 306, [2] advertisements. English text translated from the last edition of the Latin; bound in contemporary blind panelled full calf; illustrated throughout with woodcut figures and diagrams; head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure, light rubbing to extremities, interior with some light toning and foxing, lacking front blank but otherwise complete. Scarce first edition