Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. / Autore J S. Newton, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali.

Londini : Jussu Societatis Regiae ac Typis Josephi Streater. Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas, Anno MDCLXXXVII. [1687]

8 unnumbered pages, 383, 400-510 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of folded plates : diagrams ; 4to (25 cm)

"Imprimatur S. Pepys, Reg. soc. præses. Julii 5. 1686."

First issue of first edition.

Copy 1. Binding: Early 20th century brown goatskin(?), decorated in imitation of 17th century panelled style. Original red speckled text block edges, top edge cropped in rebinding. Remains of early ownership inscription at head of title page cropped in rebinding. Purchased at Sotheby's sale of the library of Joseph Frank Payne in 1911. See J. Symons, ‘Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: Wellcome and Osler’, Medical History, 41 (1997), 213–55.

Wing, N1048

Gray, 6

Babson, 10

ESTC R5707

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), N1048