[NEWTON, SIR ISAAC]. Isaaci Newtoni Opera Quae Exstant Omnia. Commentariis Illustrabat Samuel Horsley, LL. D. R. S. S. Reverendo Admodum in Christo Patri Robrto Episcopo Londinesi a Sacris. Londini [London]: Excudebat Joannes Nichols, 1779-1785.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Leather-bound in five volumes; hardcover; quarto (28.5 x 23.5 cm); pp. [4], xxii, 592, [1]; xxv, [3], 459, [1]; [10], 437, [2], 48; [6], 617, [1]; [8], 550, [1]. Latin text, edited by Samuel Horsley. Handsomely bound in contemporary full tan calf, smooth spines with gilt bands and titles, half-titles, 32 engraved plates and plans, of which 3 folding, woodcut diagrams, vol. 1, 2 & 4 with corrigenda leaves at the end. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure having been very neatly repacked preserving the old spines. Rubbing and bumping to the extremities, light scuffing to the boards. Bookplates, ink annotations to half-titles, scattered spotting or foxing, some offsetting, else quite clean.
Notes: First and only collected edition of Newton's works. "This edition is by no means complete…but it is a very full collection of original texts issued in book form. It is the first to contain his important Geometria Analytica. Additions include Newton’s only printed chemical paper De Natura Acidum, a number of his letters, and, for the first time, the original text of the unfinished Methodus Fluxionum" (Babson). Copies are recorded with a portrait, not here present and likely not called for in this edition. [Babson 8; ESTC T18649].
