[Rarebooks] FS: FS: Scarce 1st English trans. of Votaire's "Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton" London: 1747

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de. THE METAPHYSICS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON: or, a Comparison Between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz. Translated from the French by David Erskine Baker. London: for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper. 1747. 8vo. 72pp. Bound in modern full paneled calf, gilt, "to style" i.e. an attractive faux 18th century binding.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Very scarce first English edition of Voltaire's "Metaphysics de Newton" (1740). ESTC currently records American copies only at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Huntington and Stanford.

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