PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA BY ISAAC NEWTON 1822 LEATHER BOUND

[NEWTON, ISAAC; François Jacquier; Thomas Le Seur; Roger Cotes]. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Auctore Isaaco Newtono, Eq. Aurato. Perpetuis Commentariis Illustrata, Communi Studio PP. Thomae Le Seur et Francisci Jacquier, ex Gallicana Minimorum Familia, Matheseos Professorum. Glasguae: Typis Andreae et Joannis M. Duncan, 1822.

New edition, edited by John Wright. Volumes 1 & 2 only of 4 [bound together in one]. Half leather. Hardcover. Octavo (245 x 145 x 50 mm). Pp. xxx, [2], 431; [6], 320. Latin text. Bound in later half morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. Spine titles gilt. Bound without half-titles. Diagrams to text. Printed footnotes. Rear indexes. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Volumes 1 & 2 only - lacking vols. 3 & 4. Binding secure having been re-backed. Covers somewhat worn. Contents generally well-preserved with some light browning. Private owner bookplate to front pastedown. An incomplete working copy. Scarce.

Notes: The first Glasgow re-issue of the 1739 Jesuits' edition, edited by John Martin Frederick Wright. The first Jesuits' edition was published in Geneva in 1739-1742 and the second in 1760. These so-called Jesuits' editions (so-called because the editors were really Minims) are valued because of their copious commentary, and also because they contain additional works by Bernoully, Maclarin, and Euler which represent all that was done on the theory of tides between the publication of Newton's Principia and the investigations of Laplace. (see Babson 30, Babson 32, Gray 17, and Wallis 17).