Pemberton, Saggio della filosofia del sig. Isacco Newton, Venice, 1733, vellum

Henry Pemberton

Saggio della filosofia del Signor Cav. Isacco Newton esposto con chiarezza... tradotta dall'inglese. Venice: Francesco Storti, 1733

4to (230 x 164mm.), engraved device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagram at end, 12 folding engraved plates, contemporary vellum, endpapers slightly foxed, binding slightly soiled and repaired at head of spine

First Italian translation of Pemberton's interpretation of Newtonian philosophy based on the Principia and the Opticks, first printed in 1728, soon after the publication of the third edition of the Principia as edited by Pemberton (1726) and the death of Newton himself in 1727.

PROVENANCE:

Biblioteca di [--]maldoli, Napoli, ink stamp on title-page (presumably the library of Giulio Cesare Riccardi, conte di Camaldoli, Palazzo Orsini di Gravina, Naples)