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Scarce American Edition of Newton's Principia

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Title: Newton's Principia. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Author: Newton, Isaac
Description: 581 pp. Portrait frontispiece. (8vo) 9½x5¾, original pebble-grained green cloth. spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition, Later Printing.Later printing (c. 1885, with 45 Liberty Street as the publisher's address) of the First American edition of Newton's Principia. This edition was first issued in New York in 1848 (with 107 Fulton Street as the publisher's address); there were subsequent issues in 1849, 1850, 1858, 1874 and ca 1885. Scarce in any edition. Gray 26. Babson 23 (both with confusion).
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Daniel Adee
Date Published: [1847, but c. 1885]