Newton, Isaac — Opera Quae Exstant Omnia

London, Excudebat Joannes Nichols. 1779-1785. Commentariis illustrabat Samuel Horsley. 5 volumes complete, quarto format, b/w illus. uniformly bound in early 19th-century full brown calf with gilt trim and spine lettering, nicely marbled edges, light foxing on the endpapers, but the text paper is clean. Lacking the half-title pages, which were not bound into this set. A former private bookplate and a former institutional bookplate inside the covers, and a faint but very neat embossed blindstamp of the former institutional library on the bottom margin of the titlepages. Brunet, IV, 48. ESTC, T18649. Contents: Vol.1, xxii 592 [1]p. with two double-folded tables. Vol. 2, [xxviii] 459 [1]p. Vol 3, 437, 48p. with 14 plates. Vol.4, 617p. with 12 plates [page 617 is misnumbered 609]. Vol. 5, [vii] 550p. with 3 double-folded plates. This was the first collected edition of his Latin/English works. .